The instructive thing looking at the awful transphobia all over discussion of the Women's Prize is that the people saying "I'm just here to talk about adolescent testosterone's effect on athletic ability" are lying They will never, ever accept trans women winning *anything*
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Does testosterone during puberty giving you more muscle mass somehow make you better at writing critically acclaimed literary fiction? No? But it's still "unfair" to have a trans woman in this category? Hmm
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The worldview you have to have to believe that: 1) Torrey Peters' writing is fundamentally and identifiably "male" and therefore different from all cis women's writing 2) All critics and judges will always be biased in favor of "male" writing over "female" writing
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Even the Women's Prize judges, who are a committee of 100% cis women This worldview is even more pessimistic and condescending than the one that says "Women by definition cannot beat men at physical athletics"
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