To clarify, the pictured poster Caroline Kwan is an ally, not a TERF. The TERFs referred to in the title are the ones ‘protecting a very specific idea of what a woman is’

  • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org
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    4 months ago

    Didn’t say that, my involvement in all this started with the question of what another poster meant by “vanilla women”.

    Personally I think the question of where to draw the lines is going to be particular to the sport, since the whole point of women’s leagues in the first place is protectionism for women athletes who would otherwise just be dominated in many sports by male athletes out of a sense of fairness and no one was even thinking about trans or intersex athletes at the time.

    So how intersex is too “masculine” to be a “fair” competition is going to depend on the sport, as is what guidelines are required for trans women to be “fair” competition against the protected class of cis women.

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      4 months ago

      Except this is all thread about someone who, as far as we know, is just a woman. A woman who people just decided wasn’t a woman because she had masculine features and was really good at boxing.