In the grand-scale of ‘what the heck did we just read’, The Nation takes the cake with this piece blaming everything and everyone (including women themselves) except climate change for women’s desire to compete against other women:
Women’s swimming is, in some ways, uniquely anti-trans. It’s a sport whose culture created the perfect conditions for trans-exclusionary beliefs to take over.https://t.co/m9PXus07Tr
— The Nation (@thenation) May 13, 2023
We’re not kidding, they really do check almost all of the boxes when it comes to the blame game. From the article:
The World Aquatics policy was the culmination of a long-simmering anti-trans sentiment in the sport of women’s swimming, particularly in Western countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. While most sporting bodies have taken a hard turn to the right in recent years when it comes to allowing transgender athletes—and transgender women, in particular—to compete, women’s swimming is, in some ways, uniquely anti-trans. It’s a sport whose culture created the perfect conditions for trans-exclusionary beliefs to take over, through a combination of its overwhelming whiteness, history of rampant sexual abuse, and a 40-year-old doping scandal that still haunts it.
Transphobia is often closely linked to white supremacy, as gender non-conformity threatens norms regarding white, Western gender ideals, and swimming’s history is decidedly anti-Black. According to a 2021 USA Swimming report, of its 331,206 year-round athletes, 35.5 percent (117,423) identified as white, while only 1 percent (3,440) identified themselves as Black or African American and 2.4 percent (7,933) said they were Hispanic or Latinx (21 percent did not respond to the ethnicity question at all). “I would say the sport has shifted marginally over time but it traditionally is a very white, very elite sport,” says Schuyler Bailar, the first openly trans athlete on a men’s team in the NCAA and founder of Lanechanger.com. “I experienced swimming as an outsider in many ways. Many of my friends were white—my whole team was white.”
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That’s a lot of words to say that in the world of women’s sports, women’s swimming is somehow the most egregious in expecting to, you know, be a women’s sport.
We’re not experts in this subject, but we honestly don’t think it’s all that deep. Competitive female athletes, like every other competitive athlete on the planet, have spent their entire lives working hard and sacrificing to get to that level. It’s not transphobic to not want everything you’ve worked for to go down the drain because someone who doesn’t belong in your sex-based category has, astonishingly, been allowed to compete in your sex-based category. Women have fought for years to establish their own way in sports, and not only are they now being told they can’t have them, they’re being told they’re bigots for wanting them.
I don't know who needs to hear this you can be trans and support transgender people but also acknowledge the biological differences someone would have in a competition.
It's not hard. Woman and men are built differently.— the ghost of Blonde (@Catalina8803) May 13, 2023
Women's sport is for (actual) women.
This isn't a complex concept to understand.— they call me bruce (@ringtrick) May 13, 2023
Well, that sounds like way too much common sense for the Twitter dot com but we agree.
How Women’s Swimming Got So Transphobic | The Nation- can’t believe the Nation actually gave the platform for this this kind of piece.
Seriously. #misogyny in pure form… seems nobody in that piece gives a crap about females at all. #sciencenotidentity https://t.co/DXs8SD8fvu— Martina Navratilova (@Martina) May 13, 2023
When you’ve lost Martina Navratilova on this issue, it may be time to re-think it.
In conclusion:
✍️uh✍️oh✍️ https://t.co/wCunx98cWk pic.twitter.com/CoFP2hsNuH
— The List (@ListComesForAll) May 13, 2023
Uh-oh.
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