As Hubbard points out, the guidelines around trans participation in Olympic sport have been around since 2003, and if this was really a problem we'd expect to see a bunch of cis men taking over elite women's sport and instead there hasn't been a single trans woman qualifying yet
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Replying to @life_minutiae @ZombieTron and
With trans people making up something like maybe 1% of the population we'd surely have expected to see at least one trans woman gold medalist by now if things were even
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Replying to @life_minutiae @whatsEJstandfor and
No then, no compassion for women at all. That's fine. I think it's important for us to keep sporting records recorded by sex. Women exist as a sex class, we aren't the same as transitioned males. Blurring any distinction harms us.
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Replying to @ZombieTron @whatsEJstandfor and
So again, since I appear to be on the other side of this bright line you're drawing, do you think I should avoid participation in sport? Use the wrong bathroom? Demand I be housed in men's prisons?
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Replying to @life_minutiae @ZombieTron and
Like if you don't want this line to be blurry, that's when I'm going to take it back to what practical consequences you think should occur for people in my situation, what you think I should do differently, in actual life, not in words on the internet
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Replying to @life_minutiae @whatsEJstandfor and
We probably need to start thinking about having more spaces as people, a gender neutral space on top of the two single sex spaces. My concern is to protect single sex spaces & our sex disaggregated data so we can accurately record sex equality. Not conflating sex & gender.
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Replying to @ZombieTron @life_minutiae and
You never realize how condescending it comes across when you advocate a "compromise" position where we can just have a separate sports league for trans women, considering of like eight athletes in the entire country for that one sport
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ZombieTron and
Or "a separate wing just for the safety of trans prisoners" which, in many institutions, would be a "wing" of just one person Solitary confinement
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ZombieTron and
Telling trans women "Why not just wait in line for the one single-occupancy restroom, you know, the one that's also used by parents who need to change a baby's diaper and stuff"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ZombieTron and
I keep noticing in these threads a desire to gesture broadly at implying that trans women should use the single occupancy restroom while being extremely reluctant to tell specific trans women in particular they should use it
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Yeah it's the same old ducking and weaving to not have to "sound like" a bigot Yelling at anyone who directly says "This affects my life, what do you think I should personally do" with "Why do you have to make everything *personal*"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ZombieTron and
"trans women shouldn't be housed in women's prisons" "Ok, I'm a trans woman and if incarcerated would be housed in a women's prison, should I request to be moved out of it if that happens?" "*mutters something about definitions*"
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Replying to @life_minutiae @arthur_affect and
This seems like an attempt at a polite discussion, so I have a go. There are several possible solutions. The question is which one serves best in which circumstances. The general problem I see is the hard-line. Transwomen are or are not women. Period. There is no discussion>>
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