The evil brilliance of focusing on trans people in athletic competitions is that inattentive cis people who are not intensely transphobic misread it as just a minor concession, while enthusiastic opponents of trans liberation understand how it advances their cause
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Additionally, this is not a new issue. Renee Richard’s participated in the US Open in the 1977 after a court determined that “the unfounded fears and misconceptions of [the USTA and the USOC] must give way to the overwhelming medical evidence that this person is now female.”
Exactly!
Plenty of sports have done the experiment and dreaded takeover by trans athletes just doesn’t happen.
