[cmboyles]

hi im griffin (he/she) my main is @standupdonor so i follow/like from there

i post about any & every toronto sports team and also sometimes the tottenham hotspur. mostly raptors rn, return in the summer if u want jaysposting

do not come into my inbox on anon to complain about a post i made i promise you i do not give a fuck

[cmboyles]

i do sincerely believe wembanyama will be canonized as a saint upon death

[cannotacrowmb]

wemby is so great. he's 22. he had a potentially fatal blood clot. he's in a fantasy/sci-fi book club for nba players that's just him and one other guy. he beat the okc thunder in the nba cup semifinals and said immediately afterwards he was happy to be playing "ethical basketball" (implied: unlike them). he has a high kick so high that it can knock a basketball out of the hoop. he decided the best way to recover from the potentially fatal blood clot was training with shaolin monks. he could have had a career with fc barcelona but turned it down because the coaches weren't challenging him enough. he's 7'4". actually he's 2.24m because he's french. he cries on the court because he "refuses to hide the burden of [his] emotions." he elbowed a guy in the neck last week. he hates iso ball. he hates ICE. he's the first guy to win defensive player of the year in a unanimous vote. he's currently building a 7,500-piece lego model of the millennium falcon

[cmboyles]

if you hate arsenal enough you will make it to nirvana

[cmboyles]

i hate arsenal almost as much as arsenal hates their fans

[cmboyles]

in every life i have hated arsenal

[cmboyles]

hating on arsenal for no reason is a moral obligation

[cmboyles]

hating on arsenal is something you can do even if you dont watch soccer at all

[based--ball]

did you know you can be a hater about sports without being racist

[based--ball]

if you ever think. hmm. i don't like this sports team. let's make posts about not letting mexican-american athletes across borders??? because they like the team you dislike. please throw your phone into a river and stay off the internet until you stop being a piece of shit. holy fuck.

[henstomper]

we're breaking out the seattle seahawks age regression t-shirt tonight

[cmboyles]

are there any more posts about everyone dying during the superbowl

[velvetys]

Since you want to be assholes no one wins the superbowl and all the players are going die

[guryo-moved-to-guryo-again]

tag your superbowl spoilers

[governmentplates-deactivated202]

Tom Brady dies

[agnesmontague]

i love the word jumbotron. the most american word, beating out any sad contender the likes of “burger”. immediately you get “jumbo”, the most american size; land of the Big Gulp. “tron”, like the movie, implying some vague cybernetic concept that hints at its purpose. then you find out, oh, it’s the giant screen at football games. the thing that sometimes puts you on blast for the most mortifying 45 seconds of your life, if you are so lucky. feel like (or become) a star, however briefly. get your affair blasted on national tv. everything about the word speaks to such an american way of living. huge fan

[thirty34four]

the nhl is serious rn?

[crowns-of-violets-and-roses]

Discussions of trans women in sports often focus on elite/professional sports which honestly I find it hard to care about but the more common scenario of “we’re going to legally ban a high school girl from playing sports with her friends because she’s trans” is just profoundly evil

[zzzucker]

i remember when utah's (republican) governor ended up vetoing a law banning transgender students from playing high school sports when he looked at the numbers, and there were only four trans students in the state playing sports at all. he released a clumsily worded but surprisingly compassionate statement about the decision.

I must admit, I am not an expert on transgenderism. I struggle to understand so much of it, and the science is conflicting. When in doubt, however, I always try to err on the side of kindness, mercy, and compassion. I also try to get proximate, and I am learning so much from our transgender community. They are great kids who face enormous struggles. Here are the numbers that have most impacted my decision: 75,000, 4, 1, 86 and 56. 75,000 high school kids participating in high school sports in Utah. 4 transgender kids playing high school sports in Utah. 1 transgender student playing girls sports. 86% of trans youth reporting suicidality. 56% of trans youth having attempted suicide. Four kids and only one of them playing girls sports. That’s what all of this is about. Four kids who aren’t dominating or winning trophies or taking scholarships. Four kids who are just trying to find some friends and feel like they are a part of something. Four kids trying to get through each day. Rarely has so much fear and anger been directed at so few. I don’t understand what they are going through or why they feel the way they do. But I want them to live.

of course, it didn't amount to much. they overrode his veto. it's just so cartoonishly evil. an entire state's political body so desperate to terrorize this one little trans girl.

[northstarsports]

I'm really gonna need people who claim to care about gender inclusion on sports to stop saying "trans people" or "trans kids" when they mean trans women and girls.

[northstarsports]

Just for example before anyone gets annoying about this:

These are direct from the WKF (world karate federation) "Transgender Rules" document.

Here are there requirements for trans men to compete in men's divisions:

Obviously annoying but basically they're asking for a doctor's note that says go for it and that's it.

In contrast, these are the rules for trans women:

(yes it spans 2 pages) They are demanding that any trans woman who ever wants to compete at any level have transitioned hormonally before the age of TWELVE. They're looking for invasive information about someone's puberty stages (which if any girl was able to transition that young, what are the odds she can prove it??). They require regular testosterone testing and require you to be at a level under that of some cis women FOR YOUR ENTIRE LIFE. This policy clearly is designed to make sure that trans women will never be able to compete in women's divisions; these standards are simply unrealistic and absurd. And I didn't even include all the rhetorical justifications earlier in the document about all the biological advantages "males" supposedly have.

By the way, this doesn't only apply to the sparring competition (which is "skin contact" not full contact fighting), but also to the kata (forms) competition which is entirely non-contact and truly has no need to be gender divided in the first place. And this isn't even a professional league—it's all amateur except for an handful of people with sponsorships. It's not even an Olympic sport except for once in 2021.

If you truly cannot see a disparity here or you feel like justifying this in any possible way then you are not an ally to trans women and you don't actually believe in gender inclusive sports. This is what structural transmisogyny looks like, and this is why we need to be fighting specifically for trans women and girls and not just "trans people" generally.