British Ice Skating just announced that they're gonna be allowing same sex ice dance couples and rather than celebrating this as a huge win and newly opened door for the women and girls who wanna ice dance but struggle to find partners (or the girls who wanted to but got told they were too tall, too broad, too big to be a following partner), some bioessentialists are instead crying in the comments about how unfair this is because all of the dudes (all like 4 of them) in ice dance are obviously gonna dump their women partners and dominate the podium together with all of that inherent, innate, male dominance 🥴 and obviously the only way to ~protect~ the female inferiority of the mixed sex partners is to segregate the same sex couples into their own division. obviously.
remember when feminism was about uplifting girls and teaching them that they could achieve anything they set their heart to, that they weren't inherently weaker than the boys just because they were girls. man i fucking miss those days, but what a lovely change to see from BIS. i really hope they don't fold to the idea of there "needing" to be even more segregated divisions, and here's to hoping that we will see their commitment to "making ice skating inclusive and accessible for all" be extended to trans skaters with time, too. 🙏
& here's their statement from insta, if you're curious:
