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Oneironaut

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5. While probably done for the wrong reasons, this doesn't really matter tbh.

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Tue Nov 11, 2025, 09:50 AM

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There has been so few trans people in the Olympics that this is more performative than anything.

What worries me is that it will be used to claim winners cheated just because they don’t match conventional beauty standards, such as when JK Rowling went on a campaign against a cis female boxer. People tend to take transphobia down idiotic rabbit holes to the point where it loops around and just becomes conventional misogyny and/or homophobia.

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While probably done for the wrong reasons, this doesn't really matter tbh. Oneironaut Tuesday #5