Also, very few people talk about trans men in sport.
Very few people talk about trans men in general. Virtually all the defense for anti-trans policies and laws is built around rhetoric about protecting women from “men in dresses” or the like. One thing trans men succeed at is gaining the social invisibility cis men tend to have.
Which is weird, because if you believed the usual progressive rhetoric about gender you’d think trans men would be viewed as women trying to steal men’s patriarchal privilege for themselves and would be treated as even more of a problem than trans women. Rather than anti-trans rhetoric being mostly concerned with maintaining protected spaces for women.
Very few people talk about trans men in general. Virtually all the defense for anti-trans policies and laws is built around rhetoric about protecting women from “men in dresses” or the like. One thing trans men succeed at is gaining the social invisibility cis men tend to have.
Which is weird, because if you believed the usual progressive rhetoric about gender you’d think trans men would be viewed as women trying to steal men’s patriarchal privilege for themselves and would be treated as even more of a problem than trans women. Rather than anti-trans rhetoric being mostly concerned with maintaining protected spaces for women.