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really cannot emphasize enough that banning cis woc isn't an accidental effect of anti-trans laws
this is the *point* of anti-trans laws, which are fundamentally based on a perceived threat to White Femininity https://www.si.com/soccer/2017/06/05/nebraska-soccer-tournament-mili-hernandez-banned-looks-boy
this is the *point* of anti-trans laws, which are fundamentally based on a perceived threat to White Femininity https://www.si.com/soccer/2017/06/05/nebraska-soccer-tournament-mili-hernandez-banned-looks-boy
sports are a major site of gender contestation and construction
or, less fancily, people get real fucking weird when events on the sports field involve their preconceptions about Men and Women and their Complementary Relation
or, less fancily, people get real fucking weird when events on the sports field involve their preconceptions about Men and Women and their Complementary Relation
White Femininity is imagined as the weaker/more delicate/more nurturing/etcetc complement to ~~manhood~~, that these are binary and distinct and immutable ways of being.
trans people tend to challenge that idea. the flesh is more mutable than the heterosexualists want to admit.
trans people tend to challenge that idea. the flesh is more mutable than the heterosexualists want to admit.
women of color (especially elite athlete woc) also challenge the particular construction of White Femininity and its assumed universality
challenge the idea that the only way to be a woman is to be Pale and Thin and Delicate
challenge the idea that the only way to be a woman is to be Pale and Thin and Delicate
hence the authorities specifically designing policies to exclude caster semenya, for instance https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/20/sports/caster-semenya-800-meters.html
then of course there's the other thing, the part where men's and women's world records have been slowly converging over the past century
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/08/the-golden-ratio-the-one-number-that-describes-how-mens-world-records-compare-with-womens/260758/
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/08/the-golden-ratio-the-one-number-that-describes-how-mens-world-records-compare-with-womens/260758/
to circle back to the main point, the goal of anti-trans laws is to *create and enforce* a "natural" difference that can no longer be found in nature
to write into the bodies of women their inferiority even if those bodies themselves are not cooperating
to write into the bodies of women their inferiority even if those bodies themselves are not cooperating
"to be a woman is to be inferior. therefore, to be a superior woman is against the rules. and look! all the women are inferior now--"
and whiter now, and more delicate now, and--
and whiter now, and more delicate now, and--
and the s̶e̶r̶e̶n̶a̶ ̶j̶o̶y̶s̶ a̶b̶i̶g̶a̶i̶l̶ ̶f̶i̶s̶h̶e̶r̶s̶ selina soules of the world are happy to go along with this assault on women
happy enough to build themselves a gilded cage, so long as there's an even shittier prison for the rest of us https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/girls-sue-block-participation-transgender-athletes-68941543
happy enough to build themselves a gilded cage, so long as there's an even shittier prison for the rest of us https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/girls-sue-block-participation-transgender-athletes-68941543
