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[–] 61 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Isn’t this chick, like, not trans at all? I don’t get why shes being dragged into this culture war insanity, unless I’m wrong.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago

    Because people are way, way worse at spotting trans people than they think they are. And they’re really bad at statistics.

    Cis women are literally half the population, so even if you assume 95% of cis women look so feminine that nobody could mistake them for male, that still means you’re roughly 10x more likely to run into a ‘masculine looking’ cis woman than a trans woman period, regardless of how masculine or feminine she looks to anyone.

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Yes she is cis. Conservatives only care about women in sports as long as they turn them on

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    This isn’t an example of transphobia getting out of hand. This is what it is. Just an excuse to bully people.

    It's gatekeeping femininity. Think — when was the last time a TERF got upset about a cis woman being harassed or beaten-up for using a women's restroom but appearing too butch? Why aren't they upset when trans men (that they think are confused women) get beaten up for using the women's restroom?

    The cruelty is the point.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago

    It would be tough to be any women in sports right know because depending on what they dictate a women is will determine if she can compete. Like sports are all about genetics advantage at the highest level, be a women and have a bit to much testosterone oops to bad banned!

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago*

    Poor woman. This must be awful for her. These corrupt assholes should be ashamed of themselves.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Intersex is pretty common. She might know that she falls into that category and doesn’t want to provoke a debate which may go against her.

    Buuut we should probably have that debate. The sooner a major athletic org has to admit that a strict gender binary is untenable, the sooner we can bulldoze that talking point from transphobes’ scripts.

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