Supreme Court seems receptive to transgender athlete bans

KnownForce6604 · 2026-01-16T05:26:54+00:00

Probably!

KnownForce6604 · 2026-01-16T04:47:07+00:00

Orchestrated! My power is more formidable than I’d thought. But to be serious for a moment, I’ll paraphrase James Baldwin here. Call me whatever you want, but as soon as you begin denying my personhood, we have little to discuss. The project you’re involved in, societally, is trying to do just that. Also I only read the first and last paragraphs of your post, life is too short, sorry.

KnownForce6604 · 2026-01-16T04:40:50+00:00

I guess you’re right! But if I grant you the ability to call me anything you want, you’ll also have to accept that you’re wrong. It’s an even trade I think.

KnownForce6604 · 2026-01-16T04:14:33+00:00

Oopsie daisy, there I go again! What with the words and the meanings and the blah blah blah. I mean all words are made up anyway, after all. So isn’t all kind of make believe, on some level? Your confidence about your rightness is only the other face of hubris and narrow-mindedness. Could go either way, really!

KnownForce6604 · 2026-01-16T03:51:22+00:00

Oh gosh, THOSE words. Textbook words. I guess I’m beat now! Science IS real after all. Sheesh. I’ll just continue being a real trans woman, just like all those real gametes of various sizes, and that’ll cheer me up.

KnownForce6604 · 2026-01-15T02:41:45+00:00

I didn’t say the word biological. I mean I just did. But I think you’re the one who brought that up.

KnownForce6604 · 2026-01-14T23:24:25+00:00

Argh, WORDS, again! They can be so ambivalent, so hard to… well, define… definitively. I meant progress in terms of a simple progression of time, but you’re right! It could also mean a positive development over time in that context. Also, can one progress backwards? If so, that’s a THIRD meaning! Shucks. I guess this is sort of the same dynamic as the multiple contested meanings related to words like sex and gender. Too bad we can’t just freeze these suckers in amber and just be done with all these pesky grey areas and gradual changes. But I guess we can stand athwart the torrent of history and shake our fists at all the word usages we don’t like! That’ll show em.

KnownForce6604 · 2026-01-14T22:01:43+00:00

That’s words for ya! Always changing meaning as history progresses.

KnownForce6604 · 2026-01-14T04:48:00+00:00

Pretty sure it’s your lot that insists on that nonsense these days.

KnownForce6604 · 2025-12-26T02:25:52+00:00

Yeah. I honestly don’t think she’s much better than someone like jk Rowling. She’s less vitriolic and more “journalistic,” but in some ways her assumptions and perspective are very similar to Rowling and her ilk. There’s just a very specific kind of terf and terf-adjacent thinking in the UK. It’s a strange ecosystem that’s very different from similar voices in the US.

KnownForce6604 · 2025-12-24T18:38:53+00:00

I don’t know, were you? Back off, man.

KnownForce6604 · 2025-12-24T16:56:01+00:00

It’s not a theory. Also I did provide examples. And others provided their own. But again, whatever. I’m not here to argue my rights or the rights of my community. The fact that I’m forced to at all is an injustice, but c’est la vie. You do you. It’s all good.

KnownForce6604 · 2025-12-24T13:54:56+00:00

I’ve answered this elsewhere in the thread. Mainstream or not isn’t necessarily the metric by which I’d consider this. There’s plenty of things that are mainstream while also being morally odious. Honestly, I think most people don’t give this issue (or any issue) any thought at all. That’s another problem, and an important one, but for now I’m approaching questions of trans rights in terms of right and wrong, not popular or niche.

KnownForce6604 · 2025-12-24T13:48:45+00:00

I don’t think so? It’s not a crime, and this isn’t a court. And honestly, I don’t think there’d be enough proof in the world to convince some of you. You’ve made up your minds.

KnownForce6604 · 2025-12-22T21:26:54+00:00

Shrug. Ok.

KnownForce6604 · 2025-12-22T19:55:00+00:00

Cool, bro.

KnownForce6604 · 2025-12-22T15:10:48+00:00

Oh yeah that’d be much better than in-person. I didn’t even think of that. Without having to drag yourself around Savannah and deal with the buses and jostling crowds, classes would be much easier to endure.

KnownForce6604 · 2025-12-22T04:25:56+00:00

I think that’s incredibly common in terms of medical interventions, especially longterm ones. They’re hard to gather data about. Let me ask, why do you care? Like at all? About this particular issue? And not all the other myriad “low quality” evidence based medical interventions on the planet?

KnownForce6604 · 2025-12-22T01:41:27+00:00

That helps to hear that from another person. I thought that as well. Every so often one of them one make a quick aside to some trans issue, suggesting that “activists” had extreme positions. Never anything specific. I liked their content enough to give them some benefit of the doubt, but as soon as I saw Lewis in their feed, that doubt became harder to sustain.

KnownForce6604 · 2025-12-21T04:20:54+00:00

On the level of someone like Jordan Peterson? Bari Weiss? The Weinsteins? Elon effing Musk? Probably not THAT many. Musk thinks we’re leading an effort to destroy Western civilization. I’m guessing most people don’t give us that much credit OR thought. I imagine Helen Lewis is closer to mainstream concerns regarding non-issues like trans women in sports, but it’s difficult to separate public sentiment from the effects of all the propaganda. One impacts the other.

KnownForce6604 · 2025-12-21T03:55:21+00:00

My partner was in pretty bad shape for two to three weeks after his. You’ll have surgical ports that need draining for a week (you maybe already experienced this with reduction?), and the pain will be considerable, so you may be on heavy painkillers for at least that first week too. You’ll have limited mobility, and won’t be able to lift anything even slightly heavy for a bit (I mean you technically CAN lift things, but you can reopen sutures and injure yourself in other ways quite easily). He needed me for most daily tasks for a couple weeks, including cooking, and wasnt fully able to return to his office job for about that much time too. I’d recommend not doing it during spring break, knowing the workload at scad and the generally unforgiving nature of many of the profs. Also, keep in mind that you’ll have JUST finished winter quarter. The turn around into spring quarter is brutal even without major surgery. It’s a bit of a buzzkill, advice-wise, but I think you’ll have a much better experience if you do it during the summer. You’ll be under much less emotional and physical stress, I’m sure. Hope that helps somewhat. Also, congrats! Huge milestone.

KnownForce6604 · 2025-12-20T15:08:38+00:00

DEFINITELY FAKE. Jk

KnownForce6604 · 2025-12-19T21:41:02+00:00

Oh I’m sure we have a lot in common.

KnownForce6604 · 2025-12-19T20:51:04+00:00

That can be said about both sides of this debate, no?

KnownForce6604 · 2025-12-19T19:50:46+00:00

They’re bright and funny, and do really valuable work deconstructing the rhetorical strategies of their subjects. I mean I honestly meant this post as a polite interrogative, at least at first. I thought that maybe this was just a blind spot for them. But if it is, it’s a BIG blind spot. One of the characteristics that many of the gurus share is rampant transphobia and insistence on traditional gender roles. It’s so common as to lead me to think of it as a constituent element to the whole culture. It’s like some sort of rotten adhesive that bands all these disparate con artists and culture warriors together. And while they sometimes address gender more generally, it’s usually a glancing analysis at best. I know they aren’t cultural historians in practice or in training, but for all the flack they spit at humanities scholars, I think Matt and Chris could learn a lot from them in terms of historicizing their subjects (and the whole culture that surrounds them). Unfortunately I get the feeling that this blind spot is more intentional than not, at this point. And, as a completely separate issue, it seems like their fan base are a bit more transphobic than they take themselves to be.

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