11k reblogs on this post btw. "you can lie to your partners to affirm your gender :) it's cool :) you can become so natural they'll have no idea :)". promoting rape by deception, then acting surprised when people are suspicious of you and yours. trans positivity! yay.
people not believing in bio sex when it was perfectly clear which sex was barred from opportunities for all of fucking history makes me want to vomit. like if you think sex is fake you are a misogynist. that’s it.
“Top surgery” is just another beauty trend. It’s no different than fox eyes or buccal fat removal or BBLs or etc etc. Women are marketed a certain Look, and they’re presented with a cosmetic surgery procedure that promises to give them that Look. That’s why we see the scars being glamourised and seen as a rite of passage in the trans community. It’s a trend, it’s a Look, and you too can get it if you find a doctor who’s willing to slice off your healthy body parts.
Also, it’s the medical industry’s way of targeting women who otherwise would have escaped their grasp. GNC women who have no interest in being hyper-feminine “baddies” with lip injections, boob jobs, and snatched faces. Women who don’t really like themselves, but not in the way that makes them want to look like a Kardashian. That’s a whole market that was previously inaccessible to plastic surgeons, so it’s kind of genius in a way that they started marketing “gender affirming surgery” to these women by creating a Look that appeals to them, and selling it under a name that feels subversive and rebellious.
the time to be a mean dyke is now. be a killjoy feminist and take things too seriously, we’ve been too nice about girl math and girl dinner and pink jobs and the general infantilization of women and it’s gotten us nowhere. be a buzzkill now, for our future and our dignity
They are attacking a woman from Swaziland, Southern Africa who walks miles a day to give away free pads and try to end the stigma surrounding menstruation. All because her language isn’t inclusive enough.
The concept of libfems telling a black woman advocating & actively fighting back against period poverty/ period stigma that she should include more “inclusive” language is insane actually. & then playing disgusting false narrative “sO yOu dOnT tHiNk wOmEn aRe pEoPLe” & calling her a misogynistic slur… downright pathetic behaviour.
"In the same way that your heart feels and your mind thinks, you, mortal beings, are the instrument by which the universe cares. If you choose to care, then the universe cares. If you don't, then it doesn't." -- Brennan Lee Mulligan, D20, Fantasy High
No intervention makes sense when it's predator and prey, or two animals competing, etc.. But caring for an animal you found injured, or rescuing a drowning animal, or in this case digging animals out of snow, I just don't see the problem. Not only is it part of nature because we are part of nature, but other animals do it too. Caring and helping other species is not a human invention.
There are no gods or a plot to life, but if there is an existential reason to humanity, it must be because we have the potential of being shepherds. Not gods, not almighty, not the wisest of anything. But shepherds. We can help plants, bugs and animals. We can help our own, those that are disabled, sick, starving, old or very young. We can medicate, we can surgically operate, we can provide therapy, we can build mobility devices, we can provide food and shelter, we can start complex rescue operations, we can offer a smile and an encouraging touch. And we can stand up to anything that tries to stop us from doing all this.
my dad is just like this. one time he said he would shave his own armpits, saying like “if i even go this far, would you shave yours too?”. also one time i was taking a nap on a hammock and woke up with itching on my legs. when i opened my eyes, i saw my dad shaving my legs in my sleep. 🙂 so i figured out why i had been feeling like i was having less hair back when it happened, i was like “oh so thats whats up” but im still really upset about it.
my initial reaction to this post: “holy shit that’s AWFUL. guess i’m lucky my father only ever makes the obligatory annual ‘will you shave? please shave haha’ comment, but then leaves it alone when i don’t”
...followed by the realisation that he shouldn’t be doing that shit either.
i have experienced yet another case of “horrible men paving the way for and enabling mediocre not-as-awful men”
It has come to my attention that this is TERF post.
Just putting it out there so no one else reblogs. Or it's probably already out there, I just didn't check.
Except for the fact that Val Whiting wrote this Tweet about sports, in which MtFs actually do have a very clear biological advantage over women. She responded to a thread about chess but I'm pretty sure responded to one of the Tweets that wasn't explicitly about chess. She uses the terms "athletes" and "sports" in a lot of these Tweets so it's fair enough to say she's talking about sports and not chess.
You can see in this screenshot, she's responding not to the initial thread about chess, but to the second Tweet and likely responding to correct the assumption that saying men are biologically stronger = they're biologically better. She explicitly states that while she recognizes the reality that males have more muscle % than females, she knows that this doesn't mean they're inherently better, only more athletically inclined to dominate these types of sports that DO involve muscle.
So in short, you're using a cropped image that removes the context of what Val Whiting was saying. A quick look to Twitter would see that she was not referring to chess, but responding to a comment that was discusses trans athleticism as well. If you're going to accuse other people of being illogical, you're going to have to try better than that.
Actually no, nobody is saying "girls aren't as good as boys", we are stating a biological fact that women have less muscle mass than men. It's a well known fact that female bodies retain more fat % while male bodies retain more muscle %. Obviously, in sports where muscle mass is highlighted (physical strength), men will outperform women. A lot of these sports are designed with a male idea of strength and physique in mind. However this does not mean, like you said, that "girls aren't as good as boys". In fact, the only one making the connection that not as strong = not as good ... is ironically, you!
And funny, because even after a year of hormone therapy, studies have found that trans MtFs still retain an advantage in physical sport. And in running, this advantage stays for two years or more.
The findings raise questions about current Olympic guidelines, but the lead author cautions against using them to back bans in recreational
Trans women retained a 12% advantage and their testosterone levels remained higher even after two years of taking suppressing hormones
Additionally, studies have found that while HRT does reduce the levels of strength and muscle mass in MtFs, it doesn't reduce it enough to be fair even after 3 years of hormone therapy.
Objectives We systemically reviewed the literature to assess how long-term testosterone suppressing gender-affirming hormone therapy influen
"In contrast, hormone therapy decreases strength, LBM and muscle area, yet values remain above that observed in cisgender women, even after 36 months. These findings suggest that strength may be well preserved in transwomen during the first 3 years of hormone therapy."
Another study found that after a year of testosterone inhibition, MtFs lost relatively no strength.
KI researcher Thomas Gustafsson, professor at the Department of Laboratory Medicine / Division of Clinical Physiology and Stefan Arver, Asso
"Perhaps more surprising was that the transgender women did not lose strength at all despite inhibited testosterone production. In addition, the effect on muscle mass of the transgender women was less pronounced than many people previously thought, losing only 5% of the muscle volume over the thigh muscles."
Another study found even after 14 years on hormone therapy, MtFs still retained higher heart and lung capacity, lower body fat, and greater skeletal muscle mass than women. Though this study was not on elite athletes, it is still relevant as they can become athletes later on, even while retaining these significant advantages.
A study reveals that even after a decade of hormone therapy, transgender women are stronger and faster than cisgender women.
"The trans women had been on hormone therapy for an average of 14 years, which had started at age 17, on average. As well as heart and lung capacity and strength, total body fat was lower and skeletal muscle mass was higher among the trans women than among the cis women, but higher and lower than they were in cis men, respectively."
"The researchers found that transgender women had about 40% greater muscle mass than cisgender women. Moreover, they were about 19% stronger and had 20% greater cardiopulmonary capacity. By current NCAA and Olympic rules, these women are allowed to compete in women's sporting events."
Also, next time I would advise you to read your own source. I'm fairly sure you just searched up "trans women don't have advantage" and just sourced this article without actually looking at the report it was discussing. Don't worry, I did it for you.
Within the first few pages, the report admits that "when adjusting for height and fat mass, LBM, CSA, and strength after 12 months of testosterone suppression, trans women still retained statistically higher levels than cis women".
The report admits it's biomedical research is inconclusive. Rather, it calls for more research to be done about the topic. The second area of research that the report does is sociocultural, which I will ignore because it's meant to discuss things like history and discrimination, which are unrelated to the physical advantages of sex.
This report falsely makes the conclusion that just because sex characteristics can overlap, that "male and female are not mutually exclusive categories and should not be treated as such". It is very hard for me to respect a report written so blatantly with bias against biological fact. Male and female are mutually exclusive categories that affect how our bodies develop both inside and outside the womb. Even DSDs (intersex disorders) are sex-segregated. There is no "mix" of the sexes, nor a third sex. To claim so discredits this report and makes me wonder how credible it can be considered.
The report shows us the comparison between MtFs, cis men, and cis women in terms of height and weight. You can see this in the below tables that they use the data to make the conclusion that MtFs are not as strong as cis men because MtFs have lower height and weight than cis men. It says nothing of the even greater disparity and difference between MtFs and cis women. The difference is significant and yet not discussed.
The physical male advantage is very obvious. In this photo, can you tell who is Lia Thomas, the MtF swimmer?
In this photo, we have the average female and male weightlifting. Can you see on which line Laurel Hubbard's lift is?
And as for your tags...
Actually no, we're not "contributing to the mockery of women's sports", and that's a whole lot of bogus you've made up. I've been keeping up with the women's FIFA with my brother and we've both been enjoying the games a lot! In fact, women's soccer is really refreshing since they dramatize it less. Unlike Neymar and many other male players, they don't just fall down for no reason so that a penalty or yellow card can be called. I respect the women's players a lot, even though my country's team didn't qualify.
But this recurring accusation you've made that radical feminists are perpetuating the narrative that women aren't as good as men is untrue. It's a fact that women aren't as physically strong as men, as we have less muscle mass. This isn't the same as saying women aren't as athletic as men or that we can't do a good job at our sports. There are many biological advantages to being female. Did you know that women's bodies storing more fat % than muscle actually means we're less likely to die from famine or cold? Did you know that women's immune systems are far stronger than men's, because of our XX chromosomes? Did you know that men are several times more likely to die from COVID, despite infection rates being the same, likely due to this fact that women are so much more immune? Did you know that even female infants are more likely to survive harsh conditions than male infants, so the female advantage of overcoming sickness starts at the first stages of life, and extends to old age as well? Did you know that within sports that highlight endurance and flexibility (two female advantages), women typically perform on par with men and sometimes even better? This is the case with ultra-endurance running and swimming. It's because women burn through more fat % for fuel since they have more of it, leaving extra carbohydrates. So while women exert less force, they are more resistant to fatigue!
It's very important for feminists to not lie that women are "as physically strong as men", because this is untrue. We should not be making the goal of feminism to be exactly like men. Rather, we should highlight the unique advantages and traits that women's bodies have.
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