As a trans woman — Sports is such a contentious topic for me.
On the one hand, I want us to be treated fairly and not separated from our cisgender sisters.
On the other hand, male puberty is a motherfucker and can absolutely give real, permanent athletic advantages that can never be fully reversed.
That said if a trans woman went on blockers and never went through male puberty, I see no reason to stop her from competing.
People are so polarized on this. No one allows any space for details and nuance, but those things matter just as much as the broader principles and ethics of the issue.
My defense mechanism of trying to find the humor in everything uncomfortable is being vexed by my hesitant attempt to imagine actually living through this.
We’ve never seen the ugliness of the world we’ve created for ourselves quite so clearly.
Absurdist brutality in service of childish narcissism.
Will our nature ever evolve?… Or just the means with which we execute it.