The resistance to fairness
That sounds like a brilliant parody:
The trans “struggle for justice” hahahahahahahaha hilarious.
Acknowledging the formidable hurdles trans and nonbinary athletes face in their struggles for inclusion, acceptance, and freedom, this book documents and analyses their resistance across a range of social-cultural and geopolitical contexts, from community sport to high-performance competition.
It looks like a parody but apparently isn’t.
So let’s talk about this “struggle” for “inclusion, acceptance, and freedom.”
Inclusion. We’ve been over this. We’ve been over this a billion times by now. Athletic competitions have categories and qualifications. End of story. There are age categories, sometimes weight categories, amateur/professional categories, and yes sex categories. There are categories for women. Women had to fight for them. They won the fight – the fight for inclusion, in fact. If men who identify as trans are allowed to compete against women then women are excluded from their own sports all over again.
Acceptance. That’s just another way of saying “inclusion”; see above.
Freedom. No one is taking away trans people’s “freedom.” Telling men they can’t invade women’s sports is not a violation of their freedom, it’s an enforcement of women’s rights. Women matter too.
I just spent an hour or so reading websites and watching videos where so-called liberals defend Hamas atrocities against Jews using the language of “struggle” and “resistance.” When oppressed, marginalized people are prevented from occupying territory they’re convinced belongs by rights to them, then what they do in reaction to their gatekeeping oppressors is excusable.
Now I encounter this crap. Trans athletes resistance is blending in with the Hamas freedom fighters.
How so many of my fellow leftists don’t recognize “colonizers” and “cultural appropriators” when it’s so nakedly paraded in front of them, I just can’t fathom. Instead, we must just look away and be kind.
Of course, we know how Hamas would treat any male who claims to be a woman. And then there are these fools:
https://twitter.com/babybeginner/status/1718728363572101616
I would like to know if the actual Rainbow flag can be purchased anywhere, or if it’s considered transphobic.
I still don’t understand what nonbinary athletes want. Quinn was a member of the women’s national soccer team, an Olympian, and I have never heard that her teammates were anything other than accepting and “inclusive.” Did she really want to compete on a “nonbinary” team of men and women, because she wouldn’t stand a chance of making the team. There was a male pairs figure skater that came out as nonbinary, again, he was on the US team that went to the Olympics. What would nonbinary pairs skating look like? I don’t think he seriously wants to skate with a male partner who IDs as nonbinary. His partner did not refuse to skate with him when he “came out” and USFS didn’t kick him off the National team.
The only women who want to compete in mix sex NB events are taking testosterone who think they have a chance at beating mediocre male athletes who need an NB category because they are not good enough to be competitive in men’s events.
Eava, they want to be special. They don’t want to be those ordinary, boring binary people who fit all the stereotypes of their sex. (Oh, wait, nobody really does? Well, yes, but the rest aren’t non-binary because they don’t feel non-binary.)