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Protecting trans inclusive sport
Trans inclusive sport has become a battle ground with the very fight for a trans inclusive society hanging in the balance. To be trans has become the phantasmagorical enemy, a fictive menace that has been invented to distract from the economic and political ruination wrought around the world. To be trans is to have a target pained on your back, and to play women’s sports as a trans woman is to have the whole weight of the world heaped on your back. It is not enough for trans women to be called rapists in waiting, we are being reduced to the untermenschen who must be discarded at all costs for the sake of women’s safety. Protecting trans inclusive sport is therefore vital in stopping the gender critical rot from destroying all women’s rights, which as of April 2025 has already laid the ground for the destruction of equal marriage protections and gay adoption.
Trans woman and girls have been cast as cheats, liars, usurpers, and the worst names imaginable all because they play women’s sport. I am one of them because I play women’s hockey. Because we play we are being subjected to death threats, transphobic abuse, misogynistic violence, and online dog piling. Even standing up for trans women’s involvement in women’s sport is enough to get all of that. We are lepers, pariahs, all because we play the sports we love on an equal footing in our affirmed genders.
