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Every time I tweet in defense of trans women and girl athletes, I get a bunch of replies of images of trans women who apparently are not appropriately "girl enough". Notably, none has qualified for the Olympics or dominated elite sport. But perhaps more importantly...
Those same strategies - of attacking an athlete's appearance for being insufficiently feminine is the exact way that non-trans women are policed in sport. Particularly Black and brown women around the world and especially in the global south.
Being athletic and strong and good at sport has long-been considered "manly". The impulse to capture images of women athletes - cis and trans - and police their femininity IS the very thing that threatens sport and gender justice.
To those who attempt to police people out of the category of woman, you are the threat to gender justice and women's sports, not the small number of trans women and girls who love to compete.
