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For you UK peeps without VPNs, John Oliver's excellent piece on trans athletes is now viewable on YouTube in the UK;

#Trans #women are women! TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN!!
And trans men are men! And non-binary people are non-binary!

#feminism #terf #terfscaneatshit #realfeminism #jkr #transgender #nonbinary #queer #lgbtqia #lgbt #lesbian #gay #bisexual #genderqueer #transathletes #sports #transwomen #transmen #biology

Trans women are women! Feminism is trans inclusive, otherwise it's meaningless!

#Trans #women are women! TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN!! And trans men are men! And non-binary people are non-binary! #feminism #terf #terfscaneatshit #realfeminism #jkr #transgender #nonbinary #queer #lgbtqia #lgbt #lesbian #gay #bisexual #genderqueer #transathletes #sports #transwomen #transmen #biology

: #democrats #economy #lgbtq #stockmarket #trans #transathletes #uspol #uspolitics :

MUSK-Trump MALADMINISTRATION IS SHORT OF CASH FOR SOCIAL SECURITY OFFICES ... BUT

THEY HAVE ALL THE MONEY IT TAKES TO FIGHT ONE STATE ALLOWING TRANSGENDER ATHLETES IN WOMEN'S SPORTS

: #democrats #lgbtq #transathletes #transgenderathletes #uspol #uspolitics :

#Maine governor criticizes #Trump administration for freezing funds amid #transgender athlete dispute: ‘It’s not rational’

By Alyssa Vega Globe Staff,Updated April 14, 2025

"Maine #GovernorJanetMills criticized the Trump administration on Monday just days after it moved to cut all federal #education funding to the state. The move came in response to Maine’s refusal to enforce the administration’s directive to ban transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports.
In an interview on MSNBC’s 'Morning Joe' Monday, Mills said the state received a series of letters from federal agencies, culminating in an April 2 letter from Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, which the Maine governor described as 'appalling' in tone and substance. Mills said the next day Rollins threatened to pull all education funding to the state.

" 'Because there are maybe two — at most — two transgender athletes competing in Maine schools right now, they decided to shut off funding for our school nutrition program, the school lunch program entirely, on which 172,000 Maine school #children rely for their school meals. That didn’t make any sense,' Mills said. "

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/NRfNV

#USPol #TrumpHatesChildren #TrumpIsABully #MadKingTrump #JanetMills #GovernorMills #TransgenderAthletes #TransAthletes #ProtectTransYouth #SeeYouInCourt #MaineResists #TransErasure #TransgenderRights #TransgenderRightsAreHumanRights

Es ist auch hier völlig absurd: Männer in Anzügen, die wegen meist nicht mal einer Handvoll Mädels pro Bundesstaat, die einfach Sport machen wollen, hunderte Seiten Abhandlungen und Gesetze machen 🤦

#TransAthletes: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flSS1tjoxf0&si=DSvD8aMrksoHqIVg

: #democrats #transathletes #transrights #uspol #uspolitics :

In high school, I could easily beat the boys at 50 and 100 yard dashes (and could dunk way more baskets than most of them -- 7 in a row from the line one time). But I was not allowed to compete directly with them, or play on the boys' basketball team. The boys had no problem with it -- but the school did. Some of us are born with subtle differences in chromosomes, hormones, etc., and not-so-subtle differences in weight, skills, etc. Maybe we should focus on muscle mass, weight, skill, etc., like there is with boxing and other sports. In martial arts class (which I became a brown belt in a class full of boys), we competed by skill and size -- not by gender. Just saying...
#TransAthletes #TransgenderAthletes #TransgenderRights #PeopleArePeople #TransgenderRightsAreHumanRights

US track star says she feels ‘defeated’ after Trump’s move against #TransAthletes

By Brynn Gingras and Bonney Kapp, CNN
March 20, 2025

Portland, Maine (CNN) — "She’s a two-time All American in 200- and 400-meter races. A college athlete used to winning, with a goal of making the 2032 US Olympic team. But 21-year-old #SadieSchreiner says she feels 'defeated.'

"Not by the sport she loves or the physical rigors of the training but by the shifting rules on #TransgenderAthletes that have left her running alone around the track or now not running competitively at all.

"But she won’t stop. 'I don’t know what would happen if I don’t have track and field, and I’m not going to see that reality,' Schreiner insisted.

"Schreiner knew when she was young that her physical body didn’t match her gender and began transitioning while in high school. She takes 8 pills daily to keep her testosterone levels low enough so they aren’t detectable on lab tests.
'(The hormone therapy) shrank my ligaments. It’s made me shorter. It’s made me weaker. It’s lessened my muscles. It’s redistributing my fat. It’s lowered my lung capacity,' Schreiner explained. “My biology is fundamentally different than a cis man.'

"Her NCAA 24:12 personal best for the 200 meters puts her in the top tier of her age group but she said she’s a wholly different athlete than the high school kid who ran in boys’ races. 'I am now 20% slower than I was in 8th grade.'

"Undetectable levels of testosterone used to be the standard to compete in NCAA competitions.

"Schreiner says she makes other accommodations too: 'I don’t even change in the locker rooms.'

"But there’s nothing more she can do to run in college events – the competitive home of young US athletes – since the NCAA governing body followed President Donald #Trump’s executive order titled 'Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports' with a rule change limiting participation in women’s sports to those assigned female at birth.

"She switched to meets organized by USA Track & Field – the national governing body for the sport – which holds competitions across the country for all ages and skill levels.

"It was the only place Schreiner was allowed to compete, isolated from her teammates and coaches. In some races, she ran around the track alone, with no competition in her age group, which she called 'brutal.'

" 'I am literally racing against me, instead of racing at these college meets, at the competitive levels I should be.' "

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/6QM3A

#TransgenderRights #TransgenderRightsAreHumanRights

So, sharing these photos of #SadieSchreiner from her website, showing the difference in her body before and after her transition. She isn't the same person she was before her transition. The same with anyone who has undergone HRT. Don't believe RWNJ emphasis on a few studies with only a couple of *participants*. Folks who undergo gender transition change. 'Nuff said!

#TransAthletes #TransgenderAthletes #TransgenderRights #TransgenderRightsAreHumanRights

A person who was born male showing their muscles before their transition to female. They have very defined muscles.

The same person after she started taking female hormones. Her muscles are less defined and softer.

"And let's start by acknowledging many people do have good-faith questions about this, even if they're asking them a little clumsily."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flSS1tjoxf0

#trans #TransRights #TransAthletes #TransInSports #TransSports #JohnOliver

Not fully done watching yet & I'll probably have more to share, or just more shares of this important video to do, but can I just ask: Who is displaying the spirit of sports most here - the whiny little "I shoulda won the 5th place trophy" shit, or the giggling, smiling "Who cares if I won the medal or not, as long as everyone is having fun!" person...?

https://troet.cafe/@ralphruthe/114301244252086460 #sports #resist #uspol #TransAthletes

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on Trans Athletes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flSS1tjoxf0

#LastWeekTonight #JohnOliver #TransAthletes

John Oliver - Trans athletes
https://youtu.be/flSS1tjoxf0
#trans #transathletes

Here is a - sadly - controversial opinion.
If there is one, the problem with #TransAthletes are not #TransPeople. The problem is institutional, competitive, commercialized sports.

That is the reason I have lost all interest in professional or high performance sports.

https://youtu.be/flSS1tjoxf0?list=TLPQMDYwNDIwMjVVNr8TzyjS-A

#Nowplaying

S12 E07: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - Tariffs & Trans Athletes:
6th April 2025

https://tube.fede.re/w/b3vP9AKdGr17iX8GQXmBHA

#SepiaSearch #TubeFedi #Fediverse #Mastodon #LastWeekTonight #USPol #Tariffs #TransAthletes #Trans

Vote these f*ckers out!

Republican lawmakers seek changes to #Maine #HumanRightsAct in #TitleIX compliance effort

Proposed amendments to the #antidiscrimination law revolve around #transgender student-athletes' right to compete in girls and women's sports.

https://www.wmtw.com/article/bill-remove-gender-identity-maine-human-rights-act/64354378
#TransgenderAthletes #MainePol #USPol #TransgenderRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #TransAthletes #ProtectTransKids #ProtectTransYouth #MaineHumanRightsAct

Discrimination against trans Olympians has roots in #NaziGermany

The forgotten Olympic history of #TransAthletes.

by Alex Abad-Santos
Updated Aug 1, 2024

Excerpt: "Outside of the [Olympic] Games, trans people face so much backlash, often for simply existing. The conversation around sports is particularly fraught, from children’s athletics right up through the pros. Despite the International Olympic Committee vowing to be more inclusive, the future for trans athletes is unclear.

"It all raises the question: How did we get to this point, and did it always have to be this way?

"The answers found in historian and journalist #MichaelWaters’s The Other Olympians: #Fascism, #Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports might be surprising. Waters’s book traces the emergence of #ZdeněkKoubek, a track and field star representing the country formerly known as Czechoslovakia who, at 21, won two medals — a gold in the 800m and a bronze in the long jump — at the 1934 Women’s World Games. (The Women’s World Games was the precursor to women competing at the Olympics). In 1935, Koubek announced that he would be living life as a man and swiftly became an international celebrity.

"Perhaps the most intriguing facet to Koubek’s story was in the public response. Koubek was more welcomed and celebrated than we might imagine. There was an open-mindedness and empathy to the reception of Koubek and his gender identity and expression in the 1930s.

"Waters also pinpoints where and when that changed, specifically at the #1936Olympics in #Nazi Germany. Armed with a propensity for #eugenics, #GenderAnxiety, and a startling lack of scientific evidence, a small set of Nazi officials influenced the International Olympic Committee into #GenderSurveillance and #TransPanic — stuff that eerily mirrors the #transphobic attacks that athletes, cis and trans alike, face today."

#transathletes

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