Sas [she/her]

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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • Because trans people want to participate in the category of their gender and not be discriminated against and put in an extra category? When all data so far points to trans people not dominating their gender category in sports why would you separate them and forcibly out them? What would the category even look like? Trans men separate, trans woman separate, enbies separate depending on hormone configuration? Well now you got your medical tests back. It’s way easier to put them into the category of their gender where they can participate in a fair way. Most cases of the “evil trans women dominating x sport” is some kind of misinformation that even left leaning folks often fall for.

    Example of Lia Thomas who was supposedly low end of men’s category and then won in women’s category. In reality she was very damn high in the men’s category before hrt, then very low in the men’s category on hrt (this is the point the misinformation classifies as her best in men’s category), then won one match and placed average in a lot of others in the women’s category (the one win is the point the misinformation makes out to be the norm instead of all the losses and average placements).








  • Ye i get you it’s tiring. Just reading the replies to this post has been tiring because it already has a bunch of cishet people wanting us to stay in our little corner. When i read the description of beehaw i assumed this place was safe from that. I get that people JAQing off and quoting questionable statistics to say our actually felt problem is negligible aren’t easy to deter but seeing them be the most liked replies was really disheartening.



  • I don’t think so.

    The current world paints queer people as exotic and abnormal most of the time, which is due to representation being so low and most importantly hidden away.

    For example Disney, where most kids get their movies from, scrapped Nimona because there’s a gay couple in the main cast, and Netflix picked it back up. How many headlines have we had that the first Disney movie with a gay couple is going to happen, only for that gay couple to be 2 people that pass more for very good friends or might just be in the background.

    And Netflix isn’t that great either, scrapping lesbian shows the moment it becomes obvious. Famous example being Warrior Nun. They admitted to making the first season straight bait so they’d get a second season after which they’ve been cancelled. Don’t get me wrong, Warrior Nun wasn’t a qualitatively great show but we lesbians loved it, because we’re so starved for shows with representation, and it made Netflix good profits.

    Most of queer representation has to be specifically seeked out which is exactly what’s wrong and leads to the assumption that everyone is cishet.

    So yeah in a world where most kids assume they can’t be queer because there’s normal and there is queer and they are just a normal kid and being different is scary it can be assumed that official statistics are not representative of the actual percentage.