Your snake metaphor is so spot-on for describing how fear-based bigotry actually creates that which it is afraid of. Thank you for your beautiful writing!
Thank you for this. The transphobic panic around these two women is nothing short of disgusting. The IOC abandoned chromosome testing of female athletes decades ago because the results showed that gender is not binary, it is a spectrum. If the entire population was subjected to the full range of testing women athletes are, we’d find a lot of these bigots surprised and horrified to find they aren’t as “purely” the gender they thought they were. These women aren’t all powerful. They have lost matches to other female athletes who aren’t under such ridiculous claims.
JK Rowling lost all my respect years ago And I regret all the royalties she made off my purchase of the books and movies, and Trump never had it. Ditto for Elon Musk. Perhaps if any of these transphobes used their funds to help people other than other wealthy people or to try to buy elections, they could redeem themselves.
I fear for these women, especially the boxer from Algeria, given the laws and culture in her country. Their Olympic committee already knows she’s female, but this may stir up hate and danger from the general public for her when she returns home. Danger promoted by Musk, Rowling and Trump. I suggest each of them have their hormone levels tested immediately and publicized. Their moral indicators are already all too apparent.
Your snake metaphor is so spot-on for describing how fear-based bigotry actually creates that which it is afraid of. Thank you for your beautiful writing!
Thank you for this. The transphobic panic around these two women is nothing short of disgusting. The IOC abandoned chromosome testing of female athletes decades ago because the results showed that gender is not binary, it is a spectrum. If the entire population was subjected to the full range of testing women athletes are, we’d find a lot of these bigots surprised and horrified to find they aren’t as “purely” the gender they thought they were. These women aren’t all powerful. They have lost matches to other female athletes who aren’t under such ridiculous claims.
JK Rowling lost all my respect years ago And I regret all the royalties she made off my purchase of the books and movies, and Trump never had it. Ditto for Elon Musk. Perhaps if any of these transphobes used their funds to help people other than other wealthy people or to try to buy elections, they could redeem themselves.
I fear for these women, especially the boxer from Algeria, given the laws and culture in her country. Their Olympic committee already knows she’s female, but this may stir up hate and danger from the general public for her when she returns home. Danger promoted by Musk, Rowling and Trump. I suggest each of them have their hormone levels tested immediately and publicized. Their moral indicators are already all too apparent.
Thanks maestra.
Thanks for the this
I deeply appreciate this perspective and the so fitting self-eating snake metaphor. Thank you, Kai!