That said, being that both are emergent constructs and there is no platonic form to be found of "man" and "woman", our preception of biological sex and gender ARE fluid. Sport doesn't need to be constructed around sexual division, it could be constructed around physical size or age or practical ability or some other category that I'm not clever enough to imagine. The rules governing sport are not immutable. It should be more fluid than just saying "men can only compete against men and women can only compete against women".
The federal government mandates sex equality in sports.
The other instances where women competition was created (Olympics for example) was so that women could actually compete. The other ways you want to divide it (which is often already done, age is pretty common) will never result in women being able to compete.
None of the major sports leagues in the United States ban women, they simply cannot compete. I'm a pro-woman radical on basketball and even I have to concede that maybe,
maybe, five women who have ever played in the WNBA could play in the NBA and no more than maybe two at any one time. A league with a height limit (lol) would still have barely any women in it.
It's a false debate anyway, if you want to abolish all the sex-based laws so a handful of people can demand access to some women's sports leagues, then good fucking luck with that, welcome to the War on Women, Mitt Romney's welcome letter will be in the mail. (The Equality Act the Democrats failed to pass would have redefined sex to "gender identity" so you could opt into women's rights if you wanted. Or perhaps lose them if your identity didn't present correctly.)
Meanwhile, in constructive, the calls for blood re:the Arnie thread have started:
Seriously, it was an embarrassment of a thread.
The absolute audacity to witness what's happening every single day in the USA to trans and GNC people and demand civility because a rich white man made some vague words of kindness while his political party signs the death warrants of the Queer community's most vulnerable.
It's especially the quotes of "some of you people are miserable", or variations of it. It feels teetering on being a dogwhistle. I wonder why people that are on the verge of being erased aren't happy.
I wanna say it's just an Era issue, but unfortunately it is also very much a reflection of how many cis people view trans issues in general. Support is superficial, and surface level. A feel good term to make your transactional morality balance itself out, and nothing more.
However, even just in the first page of that thread we see multiple trans people talked down to or dismissed by other members of the community. It truly speaks volumes to how little our community gives a shit about trans people when things like that continuously happen. Reading the thread after the fact is downright infuriating because of this. I'm not going to name specific posts or examples out of respect for the staff at Era, but I'm sure they can probably see it plain as day in the thread. Also, it's not like Arnold Schwarzenegger of ALL FUCKING PEOPLE has exactly a great track record when it comes to the topic of transgender people and trans rights. The complaints of trans people towards him that thread were valid.
Seriously, there are some real awful opinions in that thread. I'd urge staff to have their trans members go through it with a fine tooth comb.
Absolutely insane. The narcissism is off the charts, which, considering Nepenthe is one of the staff members they're addressing is pretty amazing.
Also have to repeat how useful and good getting off Twitter was my health, can't image how others cope with flood of hate and transphobia.
what does this have to do with twitter? my dash is nothing but onlyfans "performers" and memes and PC gaming stuff. why would you be trans and follow hate/transphobic content on social media?
That's 100% of the content on Trans Twitter, they spend literally all day looking for shit to get angry about. Okay, maybe 95%, the rest is horrific sexual content that pushes against the boundaries of my libertarian morals.