All right, enough is fucking enough...
I've sat on this story long enough, frankly, and I'm getting sicker and sicker by the moment that I have to listen to the caterwauling of Republicans and even some Democrats on this subject.
I have friends of mine in the relevant community, and they have to live with targets on their backs because it's clear that there are too many people "made uncomfortable" by the fact that transgenderism exists -- in or outside of sports.
So let's get this right down pat right now: YOU'RE BIGOTS.
You. Are. BIGOTS.
And I think part of the reason why, for a lot of you, is that you want to see transgenderism made illegal, part and parcel, in this country. There have been a number of states which have made moves -- Iowa and South Dakota have both outlawed transgender athletes from the state.
We have a number of states which are trying to outdo each other in trying to become the first state in the nation to outlaw the process entirely.
And now, on Thursday, Lia Thomas, who has become the focal point for transgender athletics across the country, became the first out transgender woman in history to win an NCAA Division I championship when she won the 500 yard freestyle at the national collegiate swimming championships...
... to significant protests from the likes of a group christening themselves as "Save Women's Sports".
Stop.
JUST FUCKING STOP.
You aren't fooling anyone, least of all me.
You want people like Lia Thomas DISAPPEARED, for your own "comfort".
You have zero fucking interest of any goddamned kind to "Save Women's Sports".
Let me put it this simply to destroy your argument as complete fucking farce:
You remember Damon Bruce's bigoted and misogynistic comments (the Olbermann clip has been deleted, apparently) on KNBR about the place of women in sports, if any, back in 2013? That he no less than called sports "his sandbox" that you [as women] were getting into?
It's because, and I know this is going to shock you TERF bigots: Sports is still a man's world and you, as woman, are little more than an invader in it, in most cases!
If a women's sports team or athlete exists, there are going to be some very uncomfortable realities coming with that fact:
* There is going to be limited, IF ANY, interest in the team. This goes from the WNBA and LPGA through Olympic sports and down to the colleges and high schools...
* ... many of the latter two wouldn't even bother with women's sports except that they are REQUIRED to do so under Title IX. And if you want to see how blatant THAT is going to be, watch the real results of the attendance and interest in the first attempt by the NCAA to "equalize" the men's and women's Division I basketball tournaments this year.
* As a large result of that, a disproportionate number of women's sporting events end in clearly uneducational and noncompetitive results, because there's no conceptual way that there are enough women of acceptable caliber to even FIELD a team in a lot of these sports.
* And did you care about the systematic drugging of Valieva, exposed a month or so ago? Of course not!!! Because she was a girl...
And that's before we get to the two big ones:
* Women's sports, as part of the misogyny, exist, in many circles, as a place to abuse women, both physically and sexually, for the gratification of men. Whether it is a direct assault, like the selection of MUCH of the women's Olympic teams in this country (as has been demonstrated for years, with even Mary Lou Retton deciding she wants to throw in in support of the violence against women!), or an indirect assault (like the time I witnessed the entire 7th and 8th grade girls group of my school held in a degree of custody for a locker-room assault on a 7th-grade girl when I was in 8th grande back in 1983), or just to ogle them because they can...
* But here's the more-specifically relevant one here: Women's Sports, as part of the bigotry, exist as a means to attempt to justify the murder and suicide of transgenders across this country.
About half of all transgenders attempt suicide, and, given a lot of this bigotry, many Americans would like to see that number much higher!!
Let me give you bigots an object exercise: Name me ONE truly effeminate female athlete of large-scale renown in this country. ONE...
There's a point to my question, which I am almost certain even people who support Lia Thomas may miss: To be an athlete of a certain level of renown, you are going to have to have a different build than many of these effeminate women.
And this only increases as you go up the ladder. It is almost certain that, as you get to Olympic level, the increase in testosterone is quite pronounced - so much so that you've conflated this to run off an Olympic Champion like Castor Semenya, who was banned from running anymore, not even for being transgender, but for simply have a Difference in Sexual Development and the bigots threw a fit.
It's one of the fucking reasons you slam women's sports at the LPGA and WNBA levels as a bunch of lesbians who look like horses and have no real place nor interest in women's sports unless they're jack-off material like Jan Stephenson or Anna Kournikova (forgetting the latter was not only basically reduced to being a doubles specialist in tennis, but was busted for drugs herself -- meldonium in 2016!!!).
It's one of the fucking reasons we have men like the former head of Russian tennis who actually called Venus and Serena Williams MEN! (If you bigots wanna believe half the shit you're suggesting, maybe a move to a more politically agreeable country like Russia would be in order!!!!!)
It's one of the fucking reasons we can't celebrate Lia Thomas or Amy Schneider or any others who try to make advances for the transgender community. Hell, odds are, Schneider's attack over the Christmas holidays in Oakland was because she is out.
I would be STUNNED if there were not a SIGNIFICANT number of transgender athletes in the Olympic/professional women's ranks of sports all over the world, simply as a function of the skill level and strength required!!
AND IF YOU CAN'T FUCKING HANDLE THAT, DO US ALL A FAVOR AND RELOCATE TO RUSSIA -- because it would probably suit you, and many of you (Democrat or Republican) probably would support Putin at this point if it got you what you wanted...
That Thomas turns out like Professor Vanderbilt of the golf-club fame...
FUCK OFF BIGOTS.
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