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Transgender women athletes banned from women’s Olympic events by new IOC policy (apnews.com)
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[–] cyan_mess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 hours ago

who fucking cares?

Transphobes care about it, a lot. The material changes may be minimal, and harm cis women more than they'll harm trans women. But they use the "sports issue" as a way to introduce the idea of excluding trans people from public life to mainstream debate. Here's prominent transphobe Helen Joyce admitting to it publicly:

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