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  • It is not specifically about surgeries. If someone changes their name, pronouns, and presentation for three months and then decides it isn’t for them, that’s a detransition, no surgical involvement. If someone is on hormones for a couple of years, and can’t deal with their family being godawful and their job prospects drying up because they’re in an unaccepting area and goes back to their old name and clothes, that’s a detransition. In fact, the latter case is the most common kind of detransition, where people have to because of social pressures or lack of support. A lot of those people retransition down the road, when they’re better able to. Almost nobody who goes far enough to make medical changes regrets doing so.















  • You know the IOC, who have pretty solid reason to know what they’re on about, just released a study on this, and it suggests that trans women have a disadvantage as compared to cis women? Because that fits the actual results, where we haven’t seen trans women winning 0.5% of competitions in line with their prevalence, nor more, but less? In any distribution there will always be outliers, but even the ones the people causing a culture war (who, incidentally, did focus groups to find the most effective way to make trans people a wedge issue) have found to trumpet from the skies as a “threat to women’s sports” because of trans women’s “innate advantages” lose all the time. They have one good day and they’re dominating.

    What was really fuckin wild to me was multiple mutant Michael Phelps coming out and parroting this opinion. Motherfucker, you have a reduced lactic acid mutation and longer arms than is the norm for your height. Should you be stripped of all of your medals, for your innate advantages? Because he’s way more unfair than any trans woman anyone has yet found to present to his competition, but that’s fine because… Why?