Excerpt:
"I'm not going to rehash the same old arguments defending the right of trans people to exist, my own right to exist, because that's what this is about, that's what this has always been about, and it's never had anything to do with sports, and we all know it, and so do they."
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Excerpt:
"Admittedly, I've intentionally avoided writing on this topic for quite some time, and for good reason. I have something a bit thorny to say. Here it is."
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Excerpt:
"Competitive sports are inherently supremacist. They are sexist, racist, ableist, classist, and perhaps above all, they are eugenicist. Moreover, they are a tool that indoctrinates and reinforces these reactionary ideals.
Just.
Hear me out. I know how it sounds."
Replying to @revoluciana@chaosfem.tw
Excerpt:
"I'm criticizing an institution of specifically competitive sports that reinforces specific reactionary ideals.
I am also not criticizing you for enjoying sports. That's not the point at all. I'm a #queer woman and I'm keenly aware that I would never be allowed in a #lesbian bar again if I criticized every person who enjoys sports. Please don't kick me out."
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Excerpt:
"Let's start here: every argument against trans people in sports is an argument about the supremacist core of what competitive sports truly are."
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Excerpt:
"Every person who has ever won a sports competition had a "biological" advantage over someone else.
Despite the fact that 9% of all people throughout human history over 7ft tall have played in the NBA, and there are only about 2800 people over 7ft tall alive today (far more rare than trans people), yet we don't ban people over 7ft tall from playing basketball. We don't ban them in the NBA or in schools, anywhere else, or at any age. Not in women's or men's sports. Instead, their height is celebrated and rewarded."
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Excerpt:
"The entire purpose of institutionalized competitive sports is to win, but it's more than that.
It's about domination.
It's about domination of team against team, but it's also about player against player. Adversary against adversary, but also teammate against teammate."
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Excerpt:
"Look, if sports really were about overcoming adversity, about community, and about supporting each other, about working together and becoming better people, then what argument is there against trans girls playing sports with other girls? Because if that's what sports were about, then this would be one of the best arguments for including and encouraging trans girls on girls teams. Trans girls need community with other girls, they're desperate for it, I would know. They need support, especially with overcoming adversity. In what way is a team learning to become better people by excluding such a marginalized girl from their team and throwing her to the wolves?
Even if you're skeptical of my argument, go back and read the decision handed down by SCOTUS. Then read what Justice Sotomayor wrote.
They all said the same things I'm saying here."
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