"its unfair for cis women with higher testosterone levels or trans women to compete!! they have better chances because of attributes they couldn't choose!! it's unfair!!!!!" putting aside that trans women don't dominate womens sports nearly as much as people claim, sports ARE unfair. as a rule!

i mean for fucks sake michael phelps has a rare mutation that makes him produce half as much lactic acid as a normal person, dramatically reducing his fatigue, as well as an abnormally wide armspan helping his swimming technique. no one in the NBA chose their height either.

the main difference between these groups of people and those who are being outcast for their own unchosen physical advantages (if they even have them) is that its more socially accepted for a guy to be tall or have wider armspan than for a woman to be trans or have higher testosterone levels. its the very opposite of anything remotely resembling promoting fairness in sport; its responding to latent, unavoidable unfairness with an artificial form of it which is in every way worse

late addition but this is also an example of the necessity of solidarity. the marginalization of trans athletes and cis women with higher testosterone levels is a confluence of forms of bigotry, neither of which exist within a vacuum and therefore must be responded to collectively

This is also an issue of misogynoir and intersexism. Caster Semenya, Margaret Wambui, Francine Niyonsaba, Christine Mboma, and Beatrice Masilingi (which afaik is every single woman banned from the Olympics for high testosterone) are ALL black African women, and Caster Semenya is intersex.

@downwiththemouse on tiktok, a black nonbinary person, recently posted a tiktok about misogynoir in the olympics, as well as several about how gender roles are made to fit white people, how black women are seen as masculine, and how all people of color but especially those who are trans and nonbinary are affected by it.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdHkjjXG/

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdHhTQyc/

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdHkNS6s/

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdHh3j9R/

happy juneteenth🤍!!! here's a list of black gfms that have yet to meet their goals! (black ppl feel free to link your or others donation posts in a reblog! reblogs from nonblack ppl appreciated!)

• help teej's sister get a breast reduction.
• help audi, a closeted black lesbian, move out of a toxic household.
• help shay, a black nonbinary, with their moving expenses.
• help gaia afford a house for her father suffering with homelessness and stage 3 colon cancer.
• help a autistic transmasc lesbian move out of an ableist and abusive household.
• help sapphire, a black transwoman, get out of an abusive household.
• help sol, a black transwoman, with her transition and other necessities.
• help melanie with her gender affirming surgery.
• help a disabled incoming freshman pay for college.
• help micah, a black queer transmasc person move.
• help silver, a gnc black lesbian get a new camera and laptop.
• help zora, a nonbinary transfem, move and transition.
• help noelle, a black transwoman afford surgery and other basic necessities.

actually you know what. transfems drop your venmos/paypals/etc in the notes. transmisogyny exempt people reblog but dont be stupid

Some context for the destruction of that Aboriginal site:

When indigenous ppl complain that their sacred sites are being destroyed and they say stuff like "we have a cultural connection to this place" "if we can't come here it's like ripping off our roots" "we need this place to communicate with our ancestor spirits" etc., white australians are conditioned to handwave statements like that away with shit like "oh well they're just saying that, it's just a random tree, they'll get over it, obviously ancestor spirits aren't real, sacredness of trees isn't real", and that is total bullshit.

Aboriginal sacred sites are integral parts of highly sophisticated mnemonic techniques that have been proven to preserve information for (i know this sounds hard to believe but) at least ten thousand years (they accurately describe coastlines that are now underwater, or dry areas that have since been rainforests for 7000 years, or extinct megafauna etc.)

Physical features (either in one place, or along a track known as a songline) work as subheadings in an encyclopaedia. Ritualised teachings tell people what rituals or song cycles (like subheadings in an encyclopaedia) to associate with specific visual cues, and then those songs all contain stories that have (for example) systematised knowledge of every local animal and plant, contained in songs for easy memorisation. White anthropologists mostly handwave these techniques away as "animist beliefs" and "ancestor worship" but in reality it's this extremely sophisticated system of knowledge that's something like a cultural encyclopaedia, and that's why it's such a big deal when this fucking anglo settler state and its profiteers destroy these locations like it means nothing bc "oh it's just a tree" or "what it's a rock they'll just go to another rock"

sasuke wants what megumi has

non autistic people shut the fuck up about elon musk he doesnt deserve to be defended and i hope he dies

like as an autistic person i literally promise you there is countless ways to support us without licking the heels of the literal richest man on the planet who uses child labour and exploits millions of people

also ''aspergers'' isnt real and that hasnt been an official diagnosis for over a decade now and it was only called that in the first place because of a neo nazi eugenicist who sent autistic children to their deaths unless he deemed them ''smart enough'' to get the 'aspergers' label. also "high functioning" and "low functioning" autism isnt real. you are literally just autistic or you are not

non autistic people reblog this actually especially if you think even for a moment about defending the epic racist child labour billionaire lol

so disney is using emily gwen’s lesbian pride flag with no compensation, and she’s still in need of money. i implore anyone who cares at all about the lgbt community to donate to her instead of paying for fucking mickey mouse pins