Algerian boxer Imane Khelif is the latest Olympic athlete deemed insufficiently female by extremists obsessed with the strictest of gender binaries.
  • nocturne@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    12110·
    4 months ago

    No surprises here. You cannot be having babies and making sandwiches if you are doing sports.

    • David_Eight@lemmy.worldEnglish
      29·
      4 months ago

      As a stay at home Dad, I also find time to cook and play basketball in the local rec League. I personally think women should leave all that stuff to men and get back to work.

    • CitizenKong@lemmy.worldEnglish
      343·
      4 months ago

      And transphobic selfrightious “feminists” like Rowling fell right into that trap. Bravo, you played yourself.

    • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I think the transphobic trend inherited a lot of its energy from the anti-gay currents I watched my entire life, and which largely had the breath kicked out of them when gay marriage became recognized around the country.

      Not all of the anti-gay current was about policing women’s bodies. Thats in there. But it’s also about what they call deviance. They have strict roles for people and you can’t keep anyone focused on their strict roles when anyone has absolute freedom to flout them. I don’t even think they care what trans and gay people are doing in other places. They care about their own authority to command their children how to be, and they think this authority is undermined if anyone out there can live a happy life in defiance of it.

      That includes policing women’s bodies but is not limited to it. Things like making sure your sons have short haircuts and work hard at practicing sports are in there too. It’s about policing people generally. Blows my mind how they think the Left are waging a culture war when all we are doing is busting out of the cages they try to keep everyone in.

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.worldEnglish
    824·
    4 months ago

    I was listening on NPR about how women were checked for femininity and given a card after an official go to see their reproductive organs for Olympic sports. Fun times!