Not that there's anything good about this, but hearing that both Steven Pinker and Richard Dawkins "resigned" from whatever honorary positions they had with the FFRF rather made my heart sink.

I was a linguistics student for a time, and Pinker's books always had a sociolinguistic aspect to them, but I never saw transphobia. It was admittedly a while back, so it really wasn't yet settling into the national consciousness.

I also admired Dawkins' writing style; again, I saw nothing transphobic.

So for both of these guys to be like "nope, you should have totally kept a piece up that says transwomen should have fewer rights and options" is, maybe, the final insult of 2024.

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[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 5 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Regarding athletes, aren't there like different categories within the genders too? Where I live there's some massive cisgender women, like they're muscular, wide, and tall. I can't see those competing against a smaller woman in certain sports.

[–] VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

Womens sports were never about protecting women, full stop. They were sold as such, sure (racist and transphobic moralizing fear campaigns have so often scored political offices).

Women's sports exist to protect (a faceless majority of) men's egos from women's excellence. The fact that FIDE still enforces women's chess is a glaring example.

To "cover all bases" though: When it comes to physiology, it would make so much more sense to have weight classes irregardless of sex or gender identity.

Fact is we have entrenched, wealthy institutions with lots of bastards who refuse to see the humanity of another gender or skin tone other than their own, and until they croak they'll drag out every backwards tradition they can force down our throats.

[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Wait, so, you're telling me men feel pain? 🤔

All joking aside I feel so naive sometimes. Women's chess? Like what the actual 🦆

[–] VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 months ago

Yuuup. It'd be funny if it weren't so harmful 🙃

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