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   Nina Paley (ninapaley@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 03:38:54 JST Nina Paley
   Should I start a TERF bicycling club? It could be international and people could create local chapters. It doesn't have to be TERF-only, or even women-only; I'd happily include everyone, even trannies. What I don't want is the bullshit walking-on-eggshells experience I have in my local bike club.
   
   For example, this morning I went on a club ride and did chit-chat and mentioned I’m going to the ICONS of sport conference in Denver, because I want men out of women’s sports, and the guy adjacent to me said, “you mean transwomen??” and I said, “they’re men” and he said, “well I have no opinion, except it sounds an awful lot like when they kept black players out of the National Baseball League.”
   
   Here's a blog post I wrote last year which should give an idea of my local bike club's social environment: https://blog.ninapaley.com/2022/03/21/cycling-and-gender-intersect-in-meaningful-ways/
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     Nina Paley (ninapaley@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 03:38:53 JST Nina Paley

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     @xzy45 TERF-centered. Like how Spinster is woman-centered but as long as people follow the rules they can be here too.
     
     I was thinking of what else to call it: heterodox cyclists? Free-thinking cyclists? But what I mean is, "place where those of us outcast and condemned as 'TERF's are welcome". That's my bar for entry. It's what would have been called "inclusive" before that word got corrupted to mean its opposite.
     Seahorses are horses likes this.
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     @ninapaley I decline membership of your club thanks, its not really terf in any way is it? 😂