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Trans Woman Forced To Compete Against Men Swims Topless In Protest (gomag.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Sunshine to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 140 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

“They confirmed that I need to wear a female swimming costume despite having to compete with the men, which ‘outs’ me as a woman who is transgender,” Coombes told the Reading Chronicle. “I explained to the person on the phone that they are not allowed to do that, and he didn’t have an answer.”

so she's a woman enough to be required to wear a women's swimsuit, but not woman enough to be allowed to swim in the women's competitions?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Bigots tend to catch a severe case of cognitive dissonance.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

They don't though. This isn't a gotcha that will make the bigots second guess themselves, there will be no internal discomfort or recognition of internal contradictions, because exclusion is the point. The more stupid barriers there are, the less trans people participate.

There is power in protests like these, but the power lies in the way it forces the people who aren't deep down the transphobia rabbit hole to challenge their previously unchallenged opinions.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, their thinking is probably something along the lines of 'shouldn't have gotten tits if you wanted to swim' or whatever. This is definitely not going to cause them to think.