#Single-sex spaces

[hjellacott]

UN official calls for female-only sports categories after women athletes lose 890 medals to trans opponents: report

Female athletes have also sustained serious injuries such as knocked-out teeth, concussions, broken legs, and skull fractures from their transgender opponents, as per the report.

A new study revealed that trans-identified biological men competing in women's sports has resulted in the loss of 890 medals by over 600 female athletes across 29 different sports, although experts said the numbers are likely much higher.

The shocking data comes from a recent report published by Reem Alsalem, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and Girls, who issued an official recommendation of banning men from competing in women's sports. The report was presented to the UN General Assembly on Oct. 8, which included a plethora of written and in-person evidence. She advised that there needs to be a protected female-only category to ensure the safety of female athletes and fairness at all levels, as reported by Sex Matters.

Alsalem called on the assembly to ensure that "female categories in organized sport are exclusively accessible to persons whose biological sex is female." She said that new sporting categories need to be created for athletes who want to compete opposite their birth sex or have the men's category be made available to all competitors.

The UN official stated that athletes should not be forced to lower testosterone levels in order to compete in any category. She also said that sports bodies should not subject athletes to invasive sex screenings.

"In cases where the sex of an athlete is unknown or uncertain, a dignified, swift, non-invasive and accurate sex screening method (such as a cheek swab) or, where necessary for exceptional reasons, genetic testing should be applied to confirm the athlete's sex. In non-professional sports spaces, the original birth certificates for verification may be appropriate. In some exceptional circumstances, such tests may need to be followed up by more complex tests," the report stated.

Alsalem called out the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and said that had it followed this protocol, the 2024 Paris Olympics boxing scandal never would have happened. The IOC determines an athlete's sporting category based on whatever sex the athlete has listed on its passport. During the Olympics, two competitors in women's wrestling were believed to be men, though their passports said they wre female and there was no indication that they identified as trans. They were believed by some to have DSD, or differences in sexual development, though they had male XY chromosomes.

Additionally, the report revealed that men competing in women's sports pose a serious safety threat to female athletes, increasing "violence at all levels."

"Female athletes are also more vulnerable to sustaining serious physical injuries when female-only sports spaces are opened to males," the report stated, citing a study that found "the least powerful man produced more power than the most powerful woman" while playing the game of volleyball. Female athletes have sustained serious injuries such as knocked-out teeth, concussions, broken legs, and skull fractures from their transgender opponents, as per the report.

The UN official also advised against allowing men in women's restrooms or changing rooms, saying that "removing single-sex spaces in sports may also increase the risk of sexual harassment, assault, voyeurism, and physical and sexual attacks in unisex locker rooms and toilets."

[antiyourwokehomophobia2]

Something that's important to realize is that men do not view their hatred of women as political or as a personal viewpoint. When men say things like women are less than men or stupid or not good for anything or that they belong in the kitchen, they view it as a natural fact of the world. They're fine saying vile shit about women because they firmly believe those things to be basic truth. They view it as natural order. To them it's as true as the sky being blue. They don't consider their views to be subjective. They think everyone feels how they do and the ones who don't are too stupid to recognize very simple truth. If you've ever wondered why a man would feel comfortable freely saying something offensive about women, that's why. To them, women being less complex than men is as simple as saying that humans need food to eat.

[lesbionia]

The preservation of male sexual access to women is at the heart of racist and sexist movements, presently and throughout history. I am critical of anything that encourages women to "evaluate" or dissolve their sexual boundaries and anything that forces women to be accessible to males.

[niiwa-angel]

Oh honey...

We know a male when we see a male. This idea that trans identified men are somehow so well hidden that us women can't tell a women with a hormone disorder from a full ass man is just wishful thinking on your part.

If you had four people, a trans identified female, a trans identified male, a cis identified male, and a cis identified female stand in a room together, all wearing beige sweatpants and a grey shirt, we would be able to sort male from female easily.

And these are just the trans identified males that actually try and look decent. There are countless more in TikTok, Instagram, this platform, and Twitter that look WAYYY worse and are incredibly easy to clock.

[canisalbus]

Vasco and Machete are absolutely adorable, your style is so lovely and you draw the softest beds I’ve ever seen in any art ever

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[radical-fire-vixen]

okay, the reply feature isn’t working for some reason, so i’m gonna reply here, @gemblingcraft and @starlight-to-midnight

so y’all really don’t remember how homophobic the UK still was even after section 28 was overturned, huh? and how homophobic it still actually is cuz lesbians are still punished for being homosexual and not wanting to interact with dick? how even afterwards, publishers wouldn’t publish works about explicitly gay characters in children’s books? y’all have the memory of celery sticks.

and literally nowhere has Rowling said anything bad about trans people. but if y’all think that “sex matters” and “lesbians are homosexual females” and “women need female only spaces” are bad, then you’re just homophobic, misogynist idiots. not that i’m surprised anyway.

also, not sure how y’all don’t remember that it was pretty heavily implied that Dumbledore was in love with Grindelwald when they were young, cuz i remember reading that, and it was literally over a decade ago. like it was clearly implied that he had serious feelings towards Grindelwald, but after his sister had died, that changed. does no one remember the biography written about Dumbledore in the book?

[eclaire-went-bam]

although i think it's important to acknowledge the complexities of aro & ace identities, & to be welcoming of aroace identities that may be sex/romance favourable/hypersexual & seek those relationships, i think it's still important to acknowledge that completely romance/sex repulsed aroaces are still a minority in the ace community despite being the stereotype. & we should still listen to those voices,

[hjellacott]

Trans People's right to single-sex spaces

The "right" in itself simply doesn't exist.

Because single-SEX spaces are for the single SEX, as the name makes clear, they're sex-based, which means trans men and women can share spaces, and trans women and men can share spaces, but trans women and women can't, and trans men and men can't. That is because you cannot change your sex, and while trans men and women have the same female sex (ergo, can use the same spaces), just like trans women and men, trans women and women't don't have the same sex, nor do trans men and men (ergo, they can't share sex-based spaces).

Even if there was any law that said that trans people should be able to have spaces just for them where they feel safe, that doesn't mean they should be given somebody else's space.

[ryukisgod]

TRAs talking about how history will judge us poorly reminds me of that quote “isn’t it an amazing coincidence that the good guys won every war?”

[butchviking]

why is "if you have a problem with transwomen in your bathrooms mind your own business/stay home" always directed at women. why's it never at men. if men have a problem w transwomen using the sex-segregated facilities that match their sex then they can get the fuck over themselves or stay at home. how about that.

[coochiequeens]

When the women only gym in their area closed the women were shut out from joining another gym by a 17 year old who wanted to protect the men from......"inappropriate sexual behaviors"

[controversal-polls]

do you hold any of the following luxury beliefs?: drugs (including weed) should be legal for recreational use, eating meat is less moral than vegetarianism/veganism, single-sex public spaces (bathrooms, changing rooms) are outdated, marriage is outdated, multiple of these

[hjellacott]

The whole idea of TERF is so stupid in general for multiple reasons, but one of the most striking ones is that they intend to put it like women are against trans people, while I'm sure the vast majority of women would have no issue whatsoever sharing their single-sex spaces with transgender men.

What we oppose is turning single-sex spaces into multiple-sex spaces, because we understand sex-based violence and sex-based opression better than anybody else.

And trans men and women have the same sex. But trans women and women don't.

[gendertrickster]

i find very cool how you're dating the writer of the comic you were (still are) swooning over

it's literally so fucking funny. you guys cannot even comprehend all the reasons why this is the funniest shit ever

[rainbowtvz]

*grits teeth*

i do not want to discourse here or anywhere anymore but it does kind of affect me as a transmasc bi person when i see shit that indirectly misgenders me and implies that bisexuality is an icky no good word and identity and you have to be bi and gay and bi and lesbian and bi and straight at the same time or support them or you're an evil stinky stinky terf like... hello where am, i

[baravaggio]

every month there's a post in my area's subreddit that's like "I'm gay in my late 20s/early 30s and I moved here from nyc and it's all grown married couples with kids and I'm miserable" and it's like. yeah 😔