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When they talk about Policing toilets? There’s a serious point about the cops being a greater risk to women than trans people have ever been that’s totally missing from mainstream discourse:

It’s fairly clear most people don’t appreciate the escalation in language, so here’s a comparison of when AG Bonta went for the mat for trans kids and refused to let a hate group dress up theirs as anything other than discrimination. 2023. Notice the framing difference compared to today’s ballots.

In 1992 Olympics Zhang Shan entered an open skeet event and beat all the men, winning gold. The following year women were not allowed to enter. When women's events were brought back the events were segregated and the targets placed at a different distance so that the results could not be compared.

This is reinforced not just at events but elsewhere too. Women training to be competitive athletes must accept inferior training resources, spaces, coaching access and support, funding for the best amongst them to succeed and find their limits like men do.

Women don't get to participate in sports but instead are relegated to a fringe of "women's sports" which itself is heavily gatekept and bordered to make sure the boundaries are clear.

Every women's event in this framework therefore becomes an inferior cousin of the Real Sports Event which by definition is for men. Women's achievements only get funded to show how much better men are, or as a side hustle to milk cash from superfans, rather than part of the main competition.

Structurally there's no reason for this at all. The Olympics manages to have men's and women's events side by side. World athletics does too. But in team sports and many other areas there's this insistence that any women's event that happens must compete with rather than run united with men's events

The real unfair competition women are being forced into with men is having women's sports constantly separated off as a distinct event which is made to compete commercially with much better funded and socially and institutionally enfranchised men's sporting events & found inadequate by that standard

I think people are misinterpreting the Erika Hilton reducing the work week in Brazil to 5 days story because I think a lot of the story here is about why the PT didn't do this in any of the SEVENTEEN YEARS they were in one form or another in power until Erika Hilton, Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Trans people are fighting to keep rights they had ten years ago—in 2016. It is not the same as fighting for rights in the first instance. So please I beg of you, knock it off with this “purity test” horseshit.

I support banning biological Black toddlers from youth sports if it’s an issue of fairness and safety.

What these politicians are doing when they put out dumb transphobic ads or say dumb transphobic things on stage is that they're weakening the movement either out of personal bigotry or out of doing incorrect electoral math, and they really should get shit for it.

Solid reality check to be reminded that outside the internet trans lesbian bubble, even people with careers writing on trans issues get to just say this kind of nonsense about us

JGP has theorised that it's the existence of enbies like me who have destroyed trans rights. But I know I spend every waking hour trying to fight for my community – whilst she is apparently out here calling the trans sisters who came before her "heterosexual transvestites".

like. we can see the uk labour party. i’m looking at them right over there with my little fucking. opera glasses. i saw them do this already. we all did

what does it say about the national party that there are candidates running on the dem ticket buying ads saying that some people are technically subhuman without reprimand or even comment. would you abide that for any other group or is this one special

(for this post i’m doing an impression of a woman that’s been hit in the head very hard with one of the big swinging pendulums they use to test material hardness) you don’t understand. MOST democrats AREN’T running anti trans ads

I think people intuitively understand that democratic candidates tossing trans kids to the wolves is not only morally repugnant but also politically ineffective, otherwise they wouldn't freak out every time someone said they weren't voting for a democrat who did this

in 30 years there will be a completely new generation of trans women who will reinvent blanchardian typology from first principles in 300 years there will be a completely new generation of trans women who will reinvent blanchardian typology from first principles in 3000 years there will…

YES!! Cis people focused on pins and email signatures. Cis people declared "the trans tipping point" was here. Cis people decided Caitlyn Fucking Jenner is "queen of the trans." Cis people started the bathroom arguments, the sports arguments, the transition arguments. We're just trying to exist.

"This is why insisting upon the historicity of queerness is neither productive nor, as Rahul Rao argues, entirely progressive. For why must the queer only be tolerated if she has always been here?"

bring your beat to protests in my opinion. throw her at cops to win*

Sports got chosen because they're a really good way of keeping people fantasising about trans bodies, being a communal space for embodied being.