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I think this is a concise microcosm of the trans situation. Trans folk represent an existential threat to gender essentialism, and all of our rickety systems based on gendered segregation are falling under long overdo scrutiny because so many of them simply don't make any sense. Bodily safety in contact sports is about the only thing that lands but even that doesn't make sense around gendered exclusion, there are people who demolish and be demolished by my male body and while those ratios skew along gender norms it's hardly by itself safe for me to fight all comers who happen to be male because I am male, that strikes me as a lazy way to divide things. Sports are cool, and while it would suck to find yourself likely disqualified by the nature of your birth, but that's already the situation at the top level. I think we are pointing to an obvious problem here, but it has nothing to do with transgender athletes and a lot more to do with the fact this lovely system is already broken for so many people but instead of fixing it people are pretending it was working fine until trans folk starting showing up.
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