Two more blogs for the blocklist!
Honestly I havenât done it sooner because Kayla is an extremely vocal transfeminist, and is Up There with the most popular âtransfeminist blogsâ
To get to my actual point.
1) Trans women are still allowed to compete, albeit in the âmaleâ or open divisions. That is fucked up, but itâs not the same as being barred in full.
2) Trans men can only compete in the womenâs if they have never undergone any medical transition at all at any point.
3) Trans men who are medically transitioning are typically banned from menâs divisions as testosterone is a banned substance in the Olympics as well as most sporting bodies in general. So yk, they were already barred in a way.
4) not all transmascs are afab like this post implies. Transmasc doesnât mean âafab nonbinaryâ
5) while this is explicitly targeting trans women, this is also targeting intersex women as well. The ruling states that itâs explicitly looking for traces of the SRY gene via a one time only test that is virtually impossible to appeal. And if a woman is found with a present SRY gene, then sheâll only have a chance at being admitted if she has complete androgen insensitivity syndrome. And itâs not guaranteed. Where the fuck is the outcry about that huh?
Once again this is âtrans people have the option to detransition/not medically transition to get access to a thing stupidly exclusive to their birth sexâ being framed as a privilege because trans men can to have access to the womenâs team if they donât medically transition. As if trans women are prohibited from detransitioning/not transitioning and doing the same to join the menâs? Like, neither is good, but this whole âtrans men get both the boys stuff AND the girls stuff itâs so unfair!!â Shit literally needs to stop like yesterday. And generally the only reason why trans men are allowed in the menâs is because basically they figure that a âwoman pretending to be a manâ could never actually beat âreal menâ at sports, and theyâll ensure that continues to be the case by strictly regulating, if not barring completely medical transition for trans men.
I feel like a lot of this stuff has parallels to all the sodomy laws being passed in the 1960s or so, the ones that heavily focused on gay men. But like, lesbians were never not targeted by those laws, and it would be insane to imply that lesbians had it easier during that time.
I feel like something similar is happening here with trans women being the ones largely explicitly targeted and legislated against, but these laws are never meant to target solely trans women, and often even include language which explicitly targets trans men too but in ways that are more insidious and revolve around âprotecting women and young girlsâ
Idk, but like. Cmon. The current âtrans discourseâ and calls for unity have literally fucking nothing to do with this ruling, it was not affected by tumblr blogs. This was deliberately done by transphobic cis people and likely was also done in response to the USAâs fascist gender rulings. This was a decision made by people in power who are also highly misogynistic by implying that basically testosterone is the end all be all, and that no woman could be a woman/female and have high testosterone, and itâs such a powerful Man Chemical that poor defenseless women just donât stand a chance against anyone with a drop of it in their veins, and this shit is intersexist too. This ruling is also geared to target plenty of intersex women too, but funny how theyâre left out in this huh. Also enby people who donât have binary transitions, them and intersex ppl are probably the most fucked out of all of this if we really want to go there.
But hey, why be angry at the transphobes leading these orgs when you can blame trans men for this and get angry at a handful of bloggers instead, while conveniently either being blind to or deliberately erasing the problems of literally everyone else who will also be affected by the ruling. But theyâre not trans women so I guess theyâre not really importantâŠ
If you canât tell I am extremely salty about this explicitly because holy fuck, if I wanted to fedpost and get the trans community (and intersex community too! This shit looks rancid from all sides!) to turn on other individual members instead of having their ire rightfully directed at the people actually writing this shit into regulations, then god, I literally couldnât fedpost better than what OOP is doing rn.
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