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Jennifer A's avatar

It happens vanishingly rarely bc fuck those people, but sometimes I am able to rise above my visceral revulsion for these weirdos and actually feel sorry for them. This is one of those times. Like Evan, I've been watching a ton of the Olympics, but especially the swimming, diving and gymnastics, and the utter JOY it is bringing me, the awe, the admiration, the edge-of-my-seat-breath-holding WONDER of it all is so much damn fun. And them? All they feel is anger, meanness, contempt. I suppose those emotions could- bc they are so very twisted- bring them joy, but I actually doubt it. What miserable little lives they lead.

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Kim's avatar

Oh my GOD I'm going to get back to the rest of the post but I had to come down here to say my piece about this trans shit because you guys. Possible medical TMI incoming but nothing too traumatizing.

Okay, so I (and a lot of women who were actually dactually AFAB and everything not that it is anyone's business) have poly-cystic ovarian syndrome. It is really pretty common. And a thing about PCOS that is super shitty is that it can cause you to overproduce testosterone. So even if you don't get the (screechingly painful) ovarian cysts, you might still get some really fantastic side effects like weird body hair in places you would prefer it not be and super irregular wack periods and nuclear-grade acne. Things that, when you are a teenager, really make you even more self conscious than you already would be and want to change in another time zone from your peers. Things that ignoramuses might point at and say "secret trans?" and might even make you get a blood test and then find too much testosterone in your system and say "SECRET TRANS."

Now, I am So Old and also was a band nerd in school so nobody ever put me through that personally, but I have no doubt it happens now, and it is disgusting. These people are terrible. They don't in fact care about girls or women at all other than how we might be better controlled by them. Launch them all into the sun.

PS Trans women are women and trans rights are human rights in case that wasn't clear. A person shouldn't have to be potentially misgendered by idiots to support this but it certainly does put it front and center in your mind.

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