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it's not an on-off switch, and you would be surprised at the amount of people who pick up on 'queer' vibes before you yourself have picked up on it harass you accordingly
I think you have to be careful here - you have experienced neither but you have opinions on the lived experiences of the very people you are talking about, based on intuition. Not to come across as too toxic, but perhaps take a note from your username's namesake and ask if you have investigated a problem, and whether therefore it is something you should be speculating so much on
or rather, maybe read and consider the words people are writing before writing a defensive reply. some of the replies from trans users you're getting are from people who have played 50 hours of sports in the last month much less their whole life.
And yet, I have gained a deeper understanding by discussing it in this thread than I would have if I just watched from the sideline. People wouldn't have even been replying in the first place to talk about these issues if I hadn't have said anything in the first place.
If anyone wants to speak to their experience of being a trans player in sports, I wish they would, but for the large population of trans people on the site, I rarely see anyone speaking from personal anecdote when it comes to sports. Much less so sports at a high level. I've had people speak of their experience at school, and growing up, and so on, but not of any actual sports experience.
Hear fucking hear
Are you capable of saying anything on this subject without assuming you know our experiences better than we do?
lmao you the sports knower used american football as an example? jfc
I mean, I'm not here to say I didn't have bad takes, but I will say I talked about like 5 different sports and of them all American Football is the one I know comparatively least about. I only picked it out because it's a majority American site.
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bro half your comments have been removed by the mods or yourself for transphobia. jesus christ.
if the only way you can learn about the plight of the marginalized is to rile a bunch of us up, maybe just don't. and maybe consider that a lot of us don't talk about sports in non-queer spaces because it tends to bring a bunch of replies like yours here, and that's unpleasant. hell in my fucking queer rec leagues I've had to wade through it.
is clearly quite poor when it comes to the experiences of trans people. maybe listen to us more and talk about us less.