#transphobia in sports

[allthecanadianpolitics]

More than half of non-binary youth in Canada are avoiding team sports due to discrimination, with only 11 per cent of non-binary youth currently participating, new research from Simon Fraser University has found. According to the first-of-its-kind 2023 Canadian Non-Binary Youth in Sport Report, 66 per cent of non-binary youth have avoided joining an organized team sport because they would have to play on a gendered men’s or women’s team, with four in five fearing locker room layouts. More than half the participants who currently play team sports have also witnessed discriminatory comments, and more than 16 per cent have witnessed physical harassment because of a person’s gender as well, the study found. “We see in our numbers that there is a lot of exclusion and discrimination occurring in sport,” lead author Martha Gumprich told Global News. “We know that physical activity is can improve someone’s mental and physical health, and this is especially important for the LGBTQ+ community. As we know, they have worse mental health outcomes than those who are heterosexual or cisgender. By making sport safer for everyone, everyone benefits.”

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#cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #transphobia #transphobia in sports #trans youth #nonbinary youth #gender discrimination #LGBT+

[earhartsease]

if I'd known you could get excluded from sports for being trans I'd have come out at high school

- Cassie Workman, trans comedian

#gallows humor #transphobia in sports #as everywhere

[mysharona1987]

She’s a CIS woman, for the record. So, yes, transphobia hurts *all* women.

Not to mention verbally insulting Brock Lesnar’s daughter is, like, the worst life decision a person can make.

#Wwe #transgender #sports #brock lesnar #Trans #transphobes #transphobia

[crossdreamers]

Soccer superstar Megan Rapinoe expresses strong support for transgender athletes

In a recent Time cover story interview, Megan Rapinoe said  that she “absolutely” would accept a trans woman on the United States women's national soccer team.

The two-time defending soccer World Cup champion despises policies designed to keep transgender girls and women from playing on female sports teams:

“We as a country are trying to legislate away people’s full humanity... It’s particularly frustrating when women’s sports is weaponized ...Oh, now we care about fairness? Now we care about women’s sports? That’s total bullsh-t. And show me all the trans people who are nefariously taking advantage of being trans in sports. It’s just not happening...

“The most amazing thing about sports is that you play and you’re playing with other people, and you’re having fun and you’re being physically active. We’re putting this all through the lens of competition and winning. But we’re talking about people’s lives. That’s where we have to start.”

According to Time Rapinoe believes that questioning transgender participation in women’s sports, as Martina Navratilova and ESPN anchor Sage Steele have done, does harm that reaches far beyond the athletic field:

“I don’t want to mince words about it. Dave Chappelle making jokes about trans people directly leads to violence, whether it’s verbal or otherwise, against trans people. When Martina or Sage or whoever are talking about this, people aren’t hearing it just in the context of elite sports. They’re saying, ‘The rest of my life, this is how I’m going to treat trans people.’”

Would Rapinoe embrace a transgender woman on the U.S. women’s soccer team, even if that woman took the place of someone assigned female at birth? Her answer: 

 “Absolutely. You’re taking a ‘real’ woman’s place,’ that’s the part of the argument that’s still extremely transphobic. I see trans women as real women. What you’re saying automatically in the argument—you’re sort of telling on yourself already—is you don’t believe these people are women. Therefore, they’re taking the other spot. I don’t feel that way.”

Read the whole Time article here.

See also: US soccer star Megan Rapinoe is supporting trans people’s participation in sports 100% US Soccer Star: Bills to Ban Transgender Kids from Sports Try to Solve a Problem that Doesn’t Exist

#trans #transgender #politics #lgbt #lgbtqa #lesbian #queer #transphobia #transgender athletes #lgbtqia #soccer #sports

[animentality]

#twitter #transgender #lgbtqia #lgbtq community #transphobes #transphobia #pool #womens sports

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

#talkin #tik tok #aew #wrestling #sonny kiss #transphobia #transwomen #transwomen in sports #all elite wrestling

[rapeculturerealities]

Florida students athletes may need to prove they can menstruate

The Florida High School Athletics Association’s (FHSAA) sports medicine advisory committee has stood by its recommendation to require high school athletes to submit information about their periods for each year they register to participate. 

The move comes after a suggestion that the association’s board adopt a national sports registration form – which makes menstrual information mandatory. 

Questions listed on the form include asking if players have had a period, when they first got their period, the date of their most recent one was and the regularity of their cycle during the previous 12 months. 

Notably, the main difference between the national form and Florida’s system, as the Palm Beach Post reports, is where the information is stored. 

The national form states that the part detailing athletes’ medical history – including their menstrual history – should not be turned into schools but remain with their physician. 

However, the FHSAA’s sports medicine committee recommended that all pages of the form be handed over to their schools.

#Florida #Teens #Sports #Menstruation #Transphobia

[thelaurenshippen]

cw: harry potter, jk rowling, transphobia

I occasionally see posts/get messages about the various harry potter references in the bright sessions, etc. and I've gotten a bunch of new followers recently so just so any new/younger listeners of my shows know:

jk rowling is a terrible transphobe whom I hold zero respect for and I haven't given a dime of my money to her since she revealed who she truly is. I want the whole bright universe to be a safe space for trans people (including the trans folks in our cast and crew!) and if I could go back and remove those references, I would. but I can't! harry potter was an extremely significant part of my life until...well, until it became very clear who she really was. it makes me so sad to think that folks might be finding TBS now and get thrown out of the story by these references, but just know that the people who made the show do not stand by jk, and that in many ways, the show is a product of its time.

#the bright sessions #harry potter #jk rowling #transphobia #I know there's PLENTY to say about the bigotry in the actual books and I think there's a lot of merit to those criticisms #and I'll own to choosing not to see some of that stuff before all this went down bc the books were meaningful to me #(this is not HP specific - another beloved childhood book series that was EVEN more formative to me growing up) #(is also something I've grappled with in recent years bc I think the author is actually probably wildly misogynistic) #(even though he's never behaved badly (far as I know) in his public life - there's stuff in the text) #BUT ANYWAY #it can be so hard to remember that we didn't have ANY inkling of her bigotry in this regard until 2018 #all of the original run of TBS was written before that #and I'll admit I gave jk the benefit of the doubt in 2018 re: her liking that tweet! I wanted to give her a chance to learn and grow #and she did....not do that #but TAMA was written in that little grace period #and then a few references in TCT were taken out during recording bc june of 2020 was when she really started to go mask off #and so we were making changes in real time #we didn't know what to do about quidditch #bc we were like 'this is a sport that people play in college and it's just called that?' #'and it's already canon that caleb plays?' #and it wasn't called quadball yet #anyway not trying to make excuses! #just know that none of those references were put in with any malice #and I guess I *could* go back and rerecord all those lines and replace them #but I know enough about my original audio engineering to know that it woudl be VERY hard to make it sound natural #and idk I do think there's something to be said for not covering up errors in old work #I'm not going to try to pretend HP wasn't important to me #EDIT: I've turned off reblogs for this post #also this is not me trying to tell other people how to approach their own HP fandom #fanworks especially - there's no benefiting jo in that - and I think it's totally legit for ppl to want to take HP as their own!

[visenyaism]

i have rarely been this out of my mind seething angry at something i’ve seen online before but FORTY EIGHT THOUSAND LIKES on a video saying that older feminists need to shut up about the culture of young women making jokes about how women are just toooooo silly and not serious with their own money and eat less food than men do and just that’s a girly thing to do. and if you have any problem with this especially during a time when the Republican party is actively trying to make women into perpetual childbearers dependent on the men in their lives forever through economic coercion you actually hate women because you won’t let the girls have fun. GOD we’re never making it out of here.

#the infantilisation has to stop????? #it’s still demeaning if you make a joke about yourself???? #esp with all the transphobia that implies anyone afab is just automatically worse at chess and all sports? come on

[phoenixyfriend]

Two women on a national sports team quit because a trans woman joined their team

Guess what sport

DARTS

THE DUTCH NATIONAL WOMEN'S DARTS TEAM

What POSSIBLE advantage does a trans woman have in darts

I feel like I'm losing my mind

Why is this not ALREADY a co ed sport like curling what POSSIBLE "natural advantage" is here

#sports #transphobia #current events #queer stuff #phoenix politics #sorta

[lizardsfromspace]

As TERFs fall deeper down the transphobia hole they eventually loop around to a level of misogyny typically only seen in MRA pick-up manuals. They start out a bit concerned, and five months later they're shouting about how trans women need to be banned from chess bc AFAB brains are just not as smart as AMAB brains. They slide from "women can do anything men can!" to a level of "women are dainty and must be protected"ness that would make a tradwife blogger blush. They've successfully engineered the belief set of a Reddit incel with nothing but a parasocial relationship with JK Rowling, a incoherent urge to Own the Transes and a box of Tweets Xs

#transphobia cw #also yes they banned trans women from women's chess #which only exists to promote women's chess #radical feminism is when you ADD gender segregation to a sport apparently

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The NHL will not allow teams to wear "cause-based" jerseys next season, the league confirmed on Thursday.

The league's Board of Governors agreed with Commissioner Gary Bettman's view that the refusals overshadowed teams' efforts in hosting Pride nights that in some cases included auctioning off the warmup jerseys. All 32 teams held Pride or Hockey is for Everyone night.

Teams will still celebrate Pride and other theme nights, including military appreciation and Hockey Fights Cancer. They're also expected to still design and produce jerseys to be autographed and sold to raise money, even though players won't skate around with them on during warmups.

Pride jerseys became a hot-button issue in the league last season after multiple players refused to wear them during warmups.

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#cdnpoli #canadian politics #canada #canadian news #canadian #NHL #hockey #sports #homophobia #transphobia #homophobia tw #transphobia tw

[pwhl-mybeloved]

from the gist on instagram

this is such a bad thing and if you love sports you should be angry about this too

#transphobia #college sports #naia #ncaa #womens sports

[tinkerbitch69]

You know, I’m sure one day, trans women will be banned from race car driving like everything else and like that will be awful but at the same time it will be so goddamn funny.

Trans women have a natural advantage at racing?Why?

Are you saying cis women can’t drive?

#lmao 🤣 #there is no disguising the sexism here #like it would be so hard for transphobes to justify #but the sad thing is most people probably wouldn’t care anyway #:’( #transgender #trans #trans women #trans femme #trans rights #transphobia #transmisogyny #racing #autosport #sports

[crossdreamers]

Female transgender athletes at a disadvantage study claims

A study funded by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has revealed that transgender female athletes face physical disadvantages compared to cisgender women across various measures.

This research indicates that physically active transgender women exhibit poorer performance in specific cardiovascular tests and possess less lower-body strength than their cisgender counterparts.

Contrary to earlier assertions, the study conducted by researchers at the University of Brighton also concludes that the bone density of transgender women is comparable to that of cisgender women, a factor closely linked to muscle strength.

The research paper says that :

"While longitudinal transitioning studies of transgender athletes are urgently needed, these results should caution against precautionary bans and sport eligibility exclusions that are not based on sport-specific (or sport-relevant) research."

Yahoo! Sports has more.

The study can be found here: Yannis P. Pitsiladis et al: Strength, power and aerobic capacity of transgender athletes: a cross-sectional study

Photo by Gabriel Sanchez on Unsplash.

#transgender #trans #lgbt #lgbtqa #queer #nonbinary #transgender athletes #transgender sports #sports #health #transphobia

[mondfahrt]

"Life Is Not a Competition, But I'm Winning" is a documentary by women and queer people about women and queer people in sports, specifically running.

SYNOPSIS: If history is written by the victors, where does that leave those who were never allowed to be part of the game? A collective of queer athletes enters the Olympic Stadium in Athens and sets out to honour those who were excluded from standing on the winners’ podium. They meet Amanda Reiter, a trans* marathon runner who has to struggle with the prejudices of sports organisers and Annet Negesa, a 800m runner who was urged by the international sports federations to undergo hormone-altering surgery. Together they create a radical utopia far from the rigid gender rules in competitive sports.

I had the opportunity to watch this movie and it's really really good, dealing with very heavy subjects but never letting pain and suffering overtake the story the protagonists want to tell.

#it had some parts that i didn't like as well but all in all it's just a really good movie about sexism/intersexism/transphobia/queerphobia #in sports #movie #life is not a competition but i'm winning #queer #Youtube