timberwraith
This is what I know about bigoted cis people and the whole fuck-lathered issue of sports:
1) They refuse to accept research showing that HRT removes differences between cis female athletic performance and trans female athletic performance.
2) They use #1 in complaining about transfem athletes having unfair advantages from a "male puberty."
3) They refuse to accept research showing access to puberty blockers and other trans medical care saves trans kids' lives and is beneficial to them.
timberwraith
4) They use #3 as a justification to prohibit trans minors from accessing medical care. This is medical care that would *prevent* "male puberty" from happening in the first place.
5) Cis people don't want to offer any kind of "compromise" on the sports issue, given that trans minors' access to medical care would fully address their complaints.
timberwraith
I'm going to take this further.
I don't think a great percentage of cis people want minors to have access to trans medical care because this would erase visible identifying qualities between trans and cis people in adulthood.
I think bigoted cis people WANT to have as many avenues possible to identify who we are so that they can inflict as much harm as the can on the fly whenever and wherever they meet us.
This links in with their opposition to ID having our correct, amended sex/gender.
timberwraith
It's pretty clear that a lot of cis people have what, on a collective level, would be genocidal intent toward trans people's existence.
You do not want us to exist. You do whatever is possible to ensure that we remain readily identifiable to you, so that you may mark us for abuse and violence. You support statutes that ensure all of these outcomes.
timberwraith
The sports issue is just one angle that fits into a much larger agenda of destroying our lives and our existence.
This is about hate. It's not about sports.
timberwraith
I'll also say this:
I think cis people have a reflexive emotional response, ground into them by a vast body of prejudices born of patriarchy, which frames "female" and "male" in very rigid ways. I think trans people's existence elicits that emotional response in a way that leaves them feeling angry and threatened because they see us as violating what they think "female" and "male" are.
And that emotional reflex, born of patriarchal bigotry, leads to every action they take against us.
timberwraith
Cis people look at us and see something defective and fundamentally disordered.
We violate "man" and "woman" and "boy" and "girl" so deeply for them, that their response is a wave of revulsion, alarm, hate, and a will to extinguish us.
They don't want access to medical care for us, because that would allow us to further violate their sense of male/female. They don't want access to gender appropriate spaces and life conditions for us because that would further violate their sense of male/female
timberwraith
ALL of this, all of cis people's hate and violence, boils down to the simple, plain fact, that they find us to be...
Something and someone who makes them feel profoundly uncomfortable.
Something and someone who challenges their almost religious beliefs about what male/female means to them.
Something and someone who threatens a sense of social order that they believe rests upon an inviolable separation between what they understand "male" and "female" to be.
We violate their notions of caste.
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