“Justice for Trans Athletes”
Trans scholarship…
I’ll repeat that: Pape is employed by @iocmedia to promote the IOC framework document…so her “scholarship” on this subject is compromised by a conflict of interest.
Jon links to a few more speakers.
I’ll just interrupt here for a second to say some things I hate about that excerpt from Pape’s chapter. First, “The participation of trans people” – no, it isn’t “trans people” as such, it’s men invading women’s sport, and it may be women who are on testosterone. It’s not trans people in general and it’s not trans people because they’re trans people, it’s because of the specific ways men or women on testosterone can make competition unfair for everyone else.
Second, “A dominant narrative” – which is a way to nudge the audience into thinking “domineering bullying fairy tale.”
Third, “the Global North” – which is absurdly gratuitous and another nudge, this time into thinking “rich privileged bitchy cunty Karens.”
It’s grotesquely manipulative and tendentious for an academic article.
Well it’s her narrative you see.
It’s infuriating stuff.
So… If the Global North is the basis of ‘biofeminism’, does that mean that feminism in the “Global South” is somehow totes fine with trans activists’ absurd claims? Or is it just that across most of the Global South, there isn’t really much of a trans rights movement, period, so there’s no larger need to push back against it?
Because honestly, I’ve only seen massive pushes for trans rights from the “Global North”.
Sex used to be something we could distinguish in the world (in sexually dimorphic species) empirically. Now they’re telling us that not only is gender socially constructed, but sex is too? It’s wordplay all the way down? I don’t know how transgender people would even exist in that framework. If one’s gender is indistinguishable, then how is one able to transition at all? It’s like postmodernism squared. The real world is just an outdated glossary for the real-real world of fantasy. It makes me wonder how communication is even possible.
True Fact: I have known several people who would say “supposably” when they intended to say “supposedly.” I still take them more seriously than anyone who uses the word “supposedly” in any paper that is intended to be taken seriously as an academic work.
I’m going to go out on a limb, and say that if trans ID males were truly allies to women in sport, they wouldn’t be forcing their way in to displace women.
Check me on this, though.
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Careful, now. JK Rowling made that exact point, and she’s evil.