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palominocorn) wrote2021-07-02 10:56 am
palominocorn) wrote2021-07-02 10:56 am
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Every time the Olympics makes up racist and sexist and gender essentialist reasons to ban Black women from sports, a bunch of people go out and rightly call them out it, but incorrectly refer to it as transphobia/cissexism.
It's honestly really... othering? Yes, the Olympic commission neither knows nor cares about the difference between transness and intersexuality. Yes, the medical establishment defined gendered characteristics based on white men and women, and People of Color not fitting into them and being punished for it is a feature, not a bug. Yes, all these binaries are made up to begin with.
It's still skeevy, in my opinion, to erase the fact that these women are *cis/ipso intersex* and call them trans.
Trans/intersex solidarity looks like a lot of things, but sure as hell not like white (yes they're almost always white) trans people calling "transphobia" on misogynoir.
It's honestly really... othering? Yes, the Olympic commission neither knows nor cares about the difference between transness and intersexuality. Yes, the medical establishment defined gendered characteristics based on white men and women, and People of Color not fitting into them and being punished for it is a feature, not a bug. Yes, all these binaries are made up to begin with.
It's still skeevy, in my opinion, to erase the fact that these women are *cis/ipso intersex* and call them trans.
Trans/intersex solidarity looks like a lot of things, but sure as hell not like white (yes they're almost always white) trans people calling "transphobia" on misogynoir.