In high school, I could easily beat the boys at 50 yard dashes and 100 yard dashes (and could dunk way more baskets than most of them -- 7 in a row one time) -- but I was not allowed to compete directly with them, or play on the boys' basketball team. The boys had no problem with it -- but the school did. Some of us are born with subtle differences in chromosomes, hormones, etc., and not-so-subtle differences in weight, skills, etc. Maybe we should focus on muscle mass, weight, etc., like there is with wrestling and other sports. In martial arts class (which I became a brown belt in a class full of boys), we competed by skill and size -- not by gender. Just saying...
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Not fully done watching yet & I'll probably have more to share, or just more shares of this important video to do, but can I just ask: Who is displaying the spirit of sports most here - the whiny little "I shoulda won the 5th place trophy" shit, or the giggling, smiling "Who cares if I won the medal or not, as long as everyone is having fun!" person...?
https://troet.cafe/@ralphruthe/114301244252086460 #sports #resist #uspol #TransAthletes
Discrimination against trans Olympians has roots in #NaziGermany
The forgotten Olympic history of #TransAthletes.
by Alex Abad-Santos
Updated Aug 1, 2024
Excerpt: "Outside of the [Olympic] Games, trans people face so much backlash, often for simply existing. The conversation around sports is particularly fraught, from children’s athletics right up through the pros. Despite the International Olympic Committee vowing to be more inclusive, the future for trans athletes is unclear.
"It all raises the question: How did we get to this point, and did it always have to be this way?
"The answers found in historian and journalist #MichaelWaters’s The Other Olympians: #Fascism, #Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports might be surprising. Waters’s book traces the emergence of #ZdeněkKoubek, a track and field star representing the country formerly known as Czechoslovakia who, at 21, won two medals — a gold in the 800m and a bronze in the long jump — at the 1934 Women’s World Games. (The Women’s World Games was the precursor to women competing at the Olympics). In 1935, Koubek announced that he would be living life as a man and swiftly became an international celebrity.
"Perhaps the most intriguing facet to Koubek’s story was in the public response. Koubek was more welcomed and celebrated than we might imagine. There was an open-mindedness and empathy to the reception of Koubek and his gender identity and expression in the 1930s.
"Waters also pinpoints where and when that changed, specifically at the #1936Olympics in #Nazi Germany. Armed with a propensity for #eugenics, #GenderAnxiety, and a startling lack of scientific evidence, a small set of Nazi officials influenced the International Olympic Committee into #GenderSurveillance and #TransPanic — stuff that eerily mirrors the #transphobic attacks that athletes, cis and trans alike, face today."
Read more:
https://www.vox.com/culture/364032/trans-athletes-olympics-2024?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us
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So, all this talk from #Trump about protecting women is BULLSHIT! If they really cared about protecting women, they would allow #ReproductiveRights and #BodilyAutomony! All the hate directed at #TransAthletes is not to make cis women safe, it's to make #TransPeople feel UNSAFE! Don't be fooled by the #Fascist regime!!!
Fuck Gavin Newsom.
What the hell was he doing on a Charlie Kirk podcast anyway?
EDIT: This was Gavin’s podcast. He invited Charlie Kirk on his own podcast on the debut episode. That’s actually a lot worse.
“California Gov. Gavin Newsom said it’s “deeply unfair” for transgender girls and women to compete in female sports”
The Paris 2024 Olympics highlighted ongoing debates about gender in sports, with new IOC policies and controversies. The discussion on gender equality continues. #Olympics2024 #GenderEquality #TransAthletes
Learn more: https://www.kinkly.com/olympics-transgender-question/
#Insurrectionist #Senator #TommyTuberville, 21 Hateful #RepublicanParty #senators call for #WhiteHouse to allow #states to continue to #discriminate against #transathletes
Senators engaged in partisan attacks on Education Secretary Miguel Cardona
this is a great look at the Charlie Kirk-founded national conservative group making its presence known at SF State by the student newspaper
Turning Point USA's campus chapter recently attracted national attention with events guaranteed to incite protest and counter backlash to "radical leftists" in conservative media #turningpointUSA #transrights #transathletes #tpusa https://goldengatexpress.org/102453/campus-original/how-turning-point-usa-uses-controversy-to-fuel-growth/
If girls keep winning like this it is just not fair to boys. We need to get the state legislatures involved and maybe ban girls’ from competing. (Irony alert) #transathletes