Longing for this overdramatic mess to have happened between better writers

So it seems like it’s going the way it does when you ARE taking notes

It just may come to that…

Jake Browning your goat and your GOAT

Ugh, so annoying!

And if you like amusement parks, I always loved Valleyfair (when I was a teenager who had not been to any other amusement parks)

Ooooh, go to the Renaissance Festival — wear a flower garland in your hair and eat a turkey leg

At the end of the day, trans women are women, and trans men are men, and I believe that all people should get to play sports as the people they are.

Many things, both culturally (the way men as a group have mistreated women who want to play sports with them) and physically (trans woman who have medically transitioned face the same disadvantages that cis women do).

The opportunity to play sports

I mean, it’s a hot topic because there are political points to be scored; so many orgs have banned trans athletes that there’s not much of a chance for trans women at the elite level in many sports right now. A conversation about fairness can’t just ignore what’s fair for trans athletes.

There could be other ways to establish some types of fairness, like weight classes in boxing. But people need to see trans athletes as worthy of acceptance before we can even have those conversations, which sucks!

This argument is largely not about the elite level, because there are basically no trans athletes at that level. But my point is that sports have evolved this way not out of some desire to give women more opportunities, and it’s important to understand that.

For instance, this woman beat many of her male rivals in figure skating in 1902, so the sport decided to just ban all women from competing: fivethirtyeight.com/features/in-...

Fun fact: That’s not at all why women’s sports exist. Men didn’t want women to play with them, so they excluded women from the entire sports universe. Women had to create their own sports just to be able to play at all.

This is the way