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A transgender girl accused of assaulting two students at a Texas high school alleges that she was being bullied and was merely fighting back

Shocking video shows a student identified by police as Travez Perry violently punching, kicking and stomping on a girl in the hallway of Tomball High School.

The female student was transported to the hospital along with a male student, whom Perry allegedly kicked in the face and knocked unconscious.

According to the police report, Perry - who goes by 'Millie' - told officers that the victim has been bullying her and had posted a photo of her on social media with a negative comment.

One Tomball High School parent whose daughter knows Perry said that the 18-year-old had been the target of a death threat.

'From what my daughter has said that the girl that was the bully had posted a picture of Millie saying people like this should die,' the mother, who asked not to be identified by name, told DailyMail.com.

When Perry appeared in court on assault charges, her attorney told a judge that the teen has been undergoing a difficult transition from male to female and that: 'There's more to this story than meets the eye.'

Perry is currently out on bond, according to authorities.

The video of the altercation sparked a widespread debate on social media as some claim Perry was justified in standing up to her alleged bullies and others condemn her use of violence.

The mother who spoke with DailyMail.com has been one of Millie's most ardent defenders on Facebook.

'I do not condone violence at all. But situations like this show that people now a days, not just kids, think they can post what they want. Or say what they want without thinking of who they are hurting,' she said.

'Nobody knows what Millie has gone through, and this could have just been a final straw for her. That is all speculation of course because I don't personally know her or her family, but as a parent and someone who is part of the LGBTQ community this girl needs help and support, not grown men online talking about her private parts and shaming and mocking her.'

One Facebook commenter summed up the views of many, writing: 'This was brutal, and severe! I was bullied for years and never attacked anyone!'

Multiple commenters rejected the gender transition defense and classified the attack as a male senselessly beating a female.

One woman wrote on Facebook: 'This person will get off because they're transitioning. This is an animal. She kicked, and stomped, and beat...not okay. Bullying is not acceptable, but kicking someone in the head. Punishment doesn't fit the crime.'


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I am pleasantly surprised that they didn't actually force a female officer to perform the search (though several were asked to) but thoroughly disgusted at the fact that all a male prisoner had to do in order to cause "mass confusion" was say he identifies as female.
How completely and utterly cucked. If you don't want to be searched don't commit fucking crimes, troon scumbags.
 

University Forced to Rescind Transgender Sports Policy

Today, Concerned Women for America (CWA) received notice that the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has resolved CWA’s civil rights complaint in women’s sports against Franklin Pierce University (FPU). OCR agreed with CWA that FPU’s transgender sports participation and inclusion policy is in violation of Title IX, which prohibits discrimination in educational programs and activities, including athletics, on the basis of sex.

Under the Resolution Agreement, the New Hampshire university, a Division II school in the Northeast-10 Conference, “will rescind its Transgender Participation and Inclusion Policy and will cease any and all practices related thereto.” FPU’s policy is similar to current NCAA policy that reportedly is under review and on the agenda for consideration by the Board of Governors at their October meeting later this month.

Penny Nance, CWA’s CEO and President had this to say:

“This Resolution Agreement is the first victory for college female athletes being forced to compete on an unfair playing field against males claiming transgender status and competing in women’s sports. We thank the Department of Education for upholding Title IX, which was passed into law 48 years ago to give women and girls equal opportunities in sports based on biological sex.

“Transgender policies have turned Title IX on its head, denying the rights of women and girl athletes to compete only against athletes of the same sex and threatening the future of women’s sports. Federal action against Franklin Pierce University is a warning shot to the NCAA and every college and university in America to back off policies that discriminate against female student-athletes and restore fairness and equity in women’s sports.”

CWA’s complaint was filed last year after a Franklin Pierce University student-athlete, who previously had competed on the men’s track team, transitioned to compete as a member of the women’s team and won a national title at the 2019 Division II NCAA Track and Field Championships in the Women’s 400-meter hurdles.
 
EDIT: NEVERMIND WRONG THREAD, meant to post it to the tranny sideshow thread. Can a mod move/delete this please?

There's been a lot of pics of neovaginas, but I bring you pictures of a """successfull""" phalloplasty, courtesy of u/trans_old_boy.


I do not understand the levels of mental illness at work that would compel someone to subject themselves to horrific scarring and insane risks of complications (80%-90% in the case of phallo) all for THIS. This weirdass flesh tube that doesn't even look human.

She turned her crotch into a WW2-era meme :story:
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A transgender woman who took her own life as she waited for help for mental health issues felt “marginalised and fobbed off”, her family have said.

So you're expecting to hear about lack of hormones, tit surgery and all the other shit trannies say is more important than cancer treatment.


Alexandra Greenway, 23, was detained by police a month before her death after a previous suicide attempt, and psychiatrists said they believed she would benefit from talking therapy. But by the time she was found collapsed at her flat in Bristol, she had heard nothing from the services that would have provided cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).

Greenway felt that almost all of those involved in her care did not fully understand her needs as a transgender woman, said her mother, who added that the services that might have helped her daughter were too stretched to get to her in time.

Jacqueline Greenway said the professionals who spoke to her daughter seemed to focus on her stress at work rather than her experience as a transgender woman. “Alexandra had complex needs that were not fully explored. She felt constantly marginalised and fobbed off,” Jacqueline Greenway said.

“There are too many people waiting for CBT. They just didn’t have the capacity. Alexandra didn’t see any signs of the CBT materialising, she couldn’t wait any longer, that’s why we believe she took her own life. All services appeared to be under too much pressure.”

She said her daughter experienced “a long and difficult road in achieving gender reassignment surgery”. Because of the length of her wait for treatment she felt forced to self-medicate with costly hormones she bought from abroad.

Gender reassignment surgery eventually took place in 2017, but Alexandra suffered complications. In the weeks and months before her death she was distressed over issues including a desire for treatment to remove body hair.

An inquest at Avon coroner’s court found on Friday that on the balance of probabilities Alexandra Greenway took her own life.

The inquest was told that on 10 April 2019, almost exactly a month before Alexandra’s death, police in Bristol were called to try to help her when she apparently tried to take her own life after leaving work at lunchtime. She told an officer that she had voices in her head that “never go away”.

Officers tried to call their own mental health triage team, but nobody was on duty. They decided to detain her under section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 but there was no bed for her in Bristol and she was taken to a psychiatric hospital 40 miles away.

Alexandra, who had a degree in clinical psychology, told doctors she wanted to access talking therapy, and doctors concluded she would benefit from CBT. But on 11 May 2019 she died before she had spoken to anyone.

Her family are upset that the inquest did not consider wider issues around her care but focused only on a few weeks before her death. “We are left with what-ifs,” said Jacqueline. “We can’t move on from that grief and frustration.”

Selen Cavcav, a senior caseworker at the charity Inquest, which has supported Greenway’s family, said: “Alexandra was a young woman trying to access suitable therapy and support passed from pillar to post. With oversubscribed, disconnected and under-supported mental health services, she simply did not get help the help she needed. Now more than ever, access to gender-informed specialist mental healthcare must be a priority in Bristol and nationally.”

Dr Sarah Constantine, the medical director for Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS trust, said: “Alexandra’s death was a tragic event and we offer our sincere condolences to her family and friends at this difficult time. If you are struggling with your mental health, we would encourage you to speak to someone close to you, a healthcare professional, or access support online or through voluntary organisations.”


So basically mentally ill person commits suicide, something aggravated by complications from the tranny surgery. The hormones and surgery didn't fix a thing.
 
’Eventually’ had SRS surgery in 2017.
Died in 2019 age 23.

So had surgery age 21? Wtf is ‘eventually’ about castration and penectomy at 21?

“Now more than ever, access to gender-informed specialist mental healthcare must be a priority in Bristol and nationally.”

Well, yes, but it’s trans activists who have been campaigning to get rid of all the mental health professionals working with transitioners, in favour of informed consent.

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A transgender woman who took her own life as she waited for help for mental health issues felt “marginalised and fobbed off”, her family have said.

So you're expecting to hear about lack of hormones, tit surgery and all the other shit trannies say is more important than cancer treatment.


Alexandra Greenway, 23, was detained by police a month before her death after a previous suicide attempt, and psychiatrists said they believed she would benefit from talking therapy. But by the time she was found collapsed at her flat in Bristol, she had heard nothing from the services that would have provided cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).

Greenway felt that almost all of those involved in her care did not fully understand her needs as a transgender woman, said her mother, who added that the services that might have helped her daughter were too stretched to get to her in time.

Jacqueline Greenway said the professionals who spoke to her daughter seemed to focus on her stress at work rather than her experience as a transgender woman. “Alexandra had complex needs that were not fully explored. She felt constantly marginalised and fobbed off,” Jacqueline Greenway said.

“There are too many people waiting for CBT. They just didn’t have the capacity. Alexandra didn’t see any signs of the CBT materialising, she couldn’t wait any longer, that’s why we believe she took her own life. All services appeared to be under too much pressure.”

She said her daughter experienced “a long and difficult road in achieving gender reassignment surgery”. Because of the length of her wait for treatment she felt forced to self-medicate with costly hormones she bought from abroad.

Gender reassignment surgery eventually took place in 2017, but Alexandra suffered complications. In the weeks and months before her death she was distressed over issues including a desire for treatment to remove body hair.

An inquest at Avon coroner’s court found on Friday that on the balance of probabilities Alexandra Greenway took her own life.

The inquest was told that on 10 April 2019, almost exactly a month before Alexandra’s death, police in Bristol were called to try to help her when she apparently tried to take her own life after leaving work at lunchtime. She told an officer that she had voices in her head that “never go away”.

Officers tried to call their own mental health triage team, but nobody was on duty. They decided to detain her under section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 but there was no bed for her in Bristol and she was taken to a psychiatric hospital 40 miles away.

Alexandra, who had a degree in clinical psychology, told doctors she wanted to access talking therapy, and doctors concluded she would benefit from CBT. But on 11 May 2019 she died before she had spoken to anyone.

Her family are upset that the inquest did not consider wider issues around her care but focused only on a few weeks before her death. “We are left with what-ifs,” said Jacqueline. “We can’t move on from that grief and frustration.”

Selen Cavcav, a senior caseworker at the charity Inquest, which has supported Greenway’s family, said: “Alexandra was a young woman trying to access suitable therapy and support passed from pillar to post. With oversubscribed, disconnected and under-supported mental health services, she simply did not get help the help she needed. Now more than ever, access to gender-informed specialist mental healthcare must be a priority in Bristol and nationally.”

Dr Sarah Constantine, the medical director for Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS trust, said: “Alexandra’s death was a tragic event and we offer our sincere condolences to her family and friends at this difficult time. If you are struggling with your mental health, we would encourage you to speak to someone close to you, a healthcare professional, or access support online or through voluntary organisations.”


So basically mentally ill person commits suicide, something aggravated by complications from the tranny surgery. The hormones and surgery didn't fix a thing.

This story has similar energy to that tranny who suicided several years back because he was being "subtly bullied" at work when the "subtle bullying" consisted of his black female coworkers not wanting to be his best friends.

This gets at how and why trannies will never be fully accepted into society. You can try to prevent them from being actually bullied or worse, you can even require people to use their precious pronouns, but you can't force people to treat them as the opposite sex or otherwise adjust their own behavior to make trannies feel more "comfortable".

Black women barely want to be friends with white women, let alone with a deluded white man dressed like a woman. And pretty much no one wants to be friends with people who have be lied to and coddled 24/7. If trannies can't adjust to that reality and come to terms with it, then they will forever be mentally distraught and suicidal. Too bad they didn't get the help they actually needed from the beginning.
 

some additional bits and pieces on these links -university education, job, relationship, stable home, lived in a progressive area, loving parent who accepted the cross sex identity, fully transitioned, including srs by the age of 21, this person had everything that we are told trans people are unable to access, thus causing their depression.

Sadly, what he also had was untreated mental illness, because everyone has been groomed into believing transition is the cure.
It really is a death cult.

5 day inquest - most people get 1 day. Mother still not satisfied.


old photo from an abandoned sound cloud.

Sorry your cult lied to you, Mx Greenway.

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EDIT: NEVERMIND WRONG THREAD, meant to post it to the tranny sideshow thread. Can a mod move/delete this please?

There's been a lot of pics of neovaginas, but I bring you pictures of a """successfull""" phalloplasty, courtesy of u/trans_old_boy.


I do not understand the levels of mental illness at work that would compel someone to subject themselves to horrific scarring and insane risks of complications (80%-90% in the case of phallo) all for THIS. This weirdass flesh tube that doesn't even look human.
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Blobfish origin story?
 
Jacqueline Greenway said the professionals who spoke to her daughter seemed to focus on her stress at work rather than her experience as a transgender woman.
And whose fault is it? The very tenet of cognitive-behavioral therapy is to comb out a patient's faulty assumptions and dysfunctional thought patterns so these can be corrected. If a cognitive-behavioral therapis dares to apply this to troon issues he or she might very well be guilty of "conversion therapy".

5 day inquest - most people get 1 day. Mother still not satisfied.
Typical liberal mentality. Mom too was bought into the myth that transition is a cure-all, so when things go wrong it got to be someone else's fault and you'd better tell me whose.
 
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A transgender woman who took her own life as she waited for help for mental health issues felt “marginalised and fobbed off”, her family have said.

So you're expecting to hear about lack of hormones, tit surgery and all the other shit trannies say is more important than cancer treatment.


Alexandra Greenway, 23, was detained by police a month before her death after a previous suicide attempt, and psychiatrists said they believed she would benefit from talking therapy. But by the time she was found collapsed at her flat in Bristol, she had heard nothing from the services that would have provided cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).

Greenway felt that almost all of those involved in her care did not fully understand her needs as a transgender woman, said her mother, who added that the services that might have helped her daughter were too stretched to get to her in time.

Jacqueline Greenway said the professionals who spoke to her daughter seemed to focus on her stress at work rather than her experience as a transgender woman. “Alexandra had complex needs that were not fully explored. She felt constantly marginalised and fobbed off,” Jacqueline Greenway said.

“There are too many people waiting for CBT. They just didn’t have the capacity. Alexandra didn’t see any signs of the CBT materialising, she couldn’t wait any longer, that’s why we believe she took her own life. All services appeared to be under too much pressure.”

She said her daughter experienced “a long and difficult road in achieving gender reassignment surgery”. Because of the length of her wait for treatment she felt forced to self-medicate with costly hormones she bought from abroad.

Gender reassignment surgery eventually took place in 2017, but Alexandra suffered complications. In the weeks and months before her death she was distressed over issues including a desire for treatment to remove body hair.

An inquest at Avon coroner’s court found on Friday that on the balance of probabilities Alexandra Greenway took her own life.

The inquest was told that on 10 April 2019, almost exactly a month before Alexandra’s death, police in Bristol were called to try to help her when she apparently tried to take her own life after leaving work at lunchtime. She told an officer that she had voices in her head that “never go away”.

Officers tried to call their own mental health triage team, but nobody was on duty. They decided to detain her under section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 but there was no bed for her in Bristol and she was taken to a psychiatric hospital 40 miles away.

Alexandra, who had a degree in clinical psychology, told doctors she wanted to access talking therapy, and doctors concluded she would benefit from CBT. But on 11 May 2019 she died before she had spoken to anyone.

Her family are upset that the inquest did not consider wider issues around her care but focused only on a few weeks before her death. “We are left with what-ifs,” said Jacqueline. “We can’t move on from that grief and frustration.”

Selen Cavcav, a senior caseworker at the charity Inquest, which has supported Greenway’s family, said: “Alexandra was a young woman trying to access suitable therapy and support passed from pillar to post. With oversubscribed, disconnected and under-supported mental health services, she simply did not get help the help she needed. Now more than ever, access to gender-informed specialist mental healthcare must be a priority in Bristol and nationally.”

Dr Sarah Constantine, the medical director for Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS trust, said: “Alexandra’s death was a tragic event and we offer our sincere condolences to her family and friends at this difficult time. If you are struggling with your mental health, we would encourage you to speak to someone close to you, a healthcare professional, or access support online or through voluntary organisations.”


So basically mentally ill person commits suicide, something aggravated by complications from the tranny surgery. The hormones and surgery didn't fix a thing.
Really hard to take a suicide seriously when the suicide note reads "fobbed off"
 
Transgender Child Sex Offender Too “Vulnerable and Easily Exploited” for Prison, Judge Rules

UK — Tyne, England. A convicted child sex offender has avoided jail after he was found to be communicating with an adolescent girl.

Police conducting a risk review at the home of Rachel Smith in July 2020 discovered that the 56-year-old convicted pedophile had been engaging in “regular contact” with a 14-year-old girl via Instagram, a social networking app.

Mr Smith pleaded guilty to breaching the sexual harm prevention order, and was sentenced to a three-year community order. Judge Robert Spragg Judge Robert Spragg Explaining the sentence, Judge Robert Spragg said the transgender-identifying pedophile would be “vulnerable and easily exploited” if placed in prison. The judge claimed that the public will be best protected by Mr Smith having added intervention from the authorities, rather than a prison sentence, as there was “nothing overtly sexual in the chats.”

The pedophile, who is male and identifies as a woman, also escaped a prison sentence in 2018 when he was convicted of making indecent photographs of children. At the time, a judge handed Mr Smith a six-month sentence suspended for two years and subjected him to a 10-year sexual harm prevention order forbidding him from having unsupervised or online contact with children under 16. Amongst Mr Smith’s 50 prior convictions is a 1994 indecent assault.

Members of the public were disturbed to find that the middle-aged pedophile uploads to his Facebook account photos of himself dressed as a schoolgirl, the preferred age range of his female victims.

Rachel Smith has fetishised under-age girls for a long, long time and wears not women’s underwear, he wears little girls underwear. There’s a big difference. Again, this is a CONVICTED sexual offender. Can you see this now? #Autogynephilia #notthecrimesofwomen pic.twitter.com/0y4Q9a25lU — Belstaffie (@Belstaffie) October 14, 2020
 
Should we crowdfund this as a holiday gift for @Null ? :|

Also, did they fuck up by referring to the shoes as "his" throughout the article, or is this an honest troon?

Transgender mayor selling shoes from own closet to boost Oregon city's budget
By NICOLE HENSLEY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
MAR 22, 2014 AT 10:01 AM

Stu Rasmussen, mayor of Silverton, Ore., is selling his massive shoe collection so that the city can afford amenities for the public.
Stu Rasmussen, mayor of Silverton, Ore., is selling his massive shoe collection so that the city can afford amenities for the public. (ebay)
The first openly transgender mayor in the nation is selling a pair of history - his shoe collection - to raise money for the city of Silverton, Ore.

Stu Rasmussen has a passion for shoes and a hell of a closet full of them, including a pair of floral-patterned snakeskin stilettos that are available on eBay for $10,000.

The caveat: they're a women's size 11.

"If I bought them, I'd put them in a glass case and put them in a living room," Rasmussen told the Daily News.

But if those heels aren't your cup of tea, Rasmussen has hundreds of shoes for sale at the Silverton Senior Center.

"I've got all-day shoes, eight-hour shoes, two-hour shoes, 30-minute shoes and 'come over and look at my shoes' shoes," Rasmussen told Northwest Cable News.

Silverton, a city with a population of nearly 9,200, has a healthy budget of about $22.5 million and $5.8 million for the general fund, according to Silverton city manager Bill Willoughby.

The proceeds from Rasmussen's shoes will be donated to the city and help pay for the "fun things," Rasmussen added, like the city pool and a senior center, which requires about $35,000 per year to operate.

"Well, I hope he sells a lot of shoes because like most cities, we have finance challenges that cities historically do," Willoughby told the Daily News. "Every dollar of new revenue would be a good thing."

It's not uncommon for people to donate land for parks and cash to help community centers, Willoughby said, but a shoe sale is a first.

These $10,000 snakeskin stilettos are part of Silverton, Ore., mayor Stu Rasmussen’s shoe collection that he’s selling to raise money for his city.
These $10,000 snakeskin stilettos are part of Silverton, Ore., mayor Stu Rasmussen’s shoe collection that he’s selling to raise money for his city. (ebay)
Rasmussen is hoping to bank off of his name and transgender recognition to sell the shoes, but he can't pocket the proceeds using the city as a selling point. He can, however, donate the money to the city and deduct it from his taxes.

Rasmussen is selling the $10,000 shoes on eBay through a third party and is offering another perk for anyone that buys them: an invitation to visit Silverton and a photo opportunity with the mayor himself, according to the shoe's page on the auction site.

The mayor will even give the buyer a certificate of authenticity, signed and notarized on "Office of the Mayor" letterhead.
 
Should we crowdfund this as a holiday gift for @Null ? :|

Also, did they fuck up by referring to the shoes as "his" throughout the article, or is this an honest troon?


Nope he’s an honest one who calls himself a heterosexual male cross-dresser, according to his Talk page:


Then again this debate seems to be from a decade ago, and even Eddie Izzard has decided he is trans now, though he still seems to be using accurate pronouns for himself.
 

As a transsexual woman and fervent soccer player (and fan), the idea that someone would transition just to succeed in women's sports because they couldn't do so in men's sports is absurd. It does female athletes a massive disservice, assuming the inherent inferiority of any cis woman to any trans woman or cis man. And it pays no attention to the fact that transitioning is long, physically and psychologically grueling. Gender dysphoria may not have any indisputable or immutable criteria, but no one begins reassignment on a whim—in fact, gender identity clinics rigorously screen against this.

I kept playing soccer after transition, but once I reached the point of two years after surgery, aged 32, having had HRT to put my testosterone and estrogen levels within a "normal female range," I decided to carry on with a men's team (admittedly in an LGBT+ league), preferring that discord to the inevitable attention and abuse that would come with playing for a women's club. When I did play, casually, with cis women, I found my advantages were not hormonal—I was less quick and less strong than many of my new teammates—but cultural. Having been raised male, I'd had far more coaching, having not been discouraged or excluded from soccer at a young age like some of them. Consequently, I had advantages in its less physical and more teachable aspects: passing, moving off the ball and shooting.

The question of whether transgender athletes threaten women's sports comes up periodically—specifically, whenever a trans woman has any modicum of success. It persists even though none of the few transsexual women who have been allowed to participate in women's competitions over the last 50 years, and especially since the International Olympic Committee (IOC) first published guidelines on the subject in 2004, have ever gone on to dominate them; and even though, as in the case of South African middle-distance runner Caster Semenya, the ferocity of demands for the exclusion of women—trans or not—with high testosterone levels has worrying implications for anyone who does not meet conventional, conservative standards of femininity.

The separation between men and women's sports is deeply linked to our society's other ways of regimenting gender; it can be traced back to Victorian Britain's preconceptions about the need for male and female spheres with associated gender stereotypes, which led (for example) to the English Football Association declaring soccer "unsuitable for women" in 1921 and banning it for what ended up being half a century.

But the particular issue of transgender athletes has occupied sports leagues for only about 40 years, ever since the U.S. Tennis Association barred transsexual player Renée Richards from the U.S. Open in 1976, citing a hitherto unprecedented woman-at-birth policy. They borrowed this terminology from second-wave feminist circles, which were then embroiled in fierce debates about whether to allow transsexual women into women-only spaces, and about how to border and police the category of "woman." In Richards' case, anxieties that she would be "naturally" stronger, fitter or better than cisgender women were unfounded: She won a New York Supreme Court case in 1977, allowing her to compete, and lost in straight sets in the first round of the ensuing tournament. Despite this, Richards' was one case that influenced the IOC guidelines, which state that "transsexual and transgender" athletes must have legal gender recognition—ruling out anyone from countries that do not allow this—as well as hormone therapy in order to "minimize gender-related advantages," as well as proof of living two years in their "newly-assigned gender" after surgery.

Notable subsequent developments included Mianne Bagger competing on the Ladies European Tour (highest finish: 35th in 2005) and 47-year-old Martine Delaney playing for Claremont United in an Australian women's soccer league. After Delaney scored six goals at a low level, opponents put in complaints to Soccer Tasmania and the Football Federation of Australia. The governing bodies, which had adopted the IOC guidelines, allowed Delaney to play on, but she continued against a backdrop of player, supporter and media hostility that was wildly disproportionate to the low level at which she was competing.


Delaney's experiences provoke further thought. Sports such as soccer, golf or tennis obviously differ from track and field events, which are mostly a simple test of physical attributes like pace and strength. However, while physical variations within the men's and women's categories, and the matter of how athletes utilize them, have always been integral to their appeal, two specific things have raised anxieties over the last 16 years. One is the revision of the IOC guidelines to remove the surgical requirement, acknowledging that HRT is sufficient to level out any hormonal differences between cis and trans people at an adult level. The other is the emergence of Caster Semenya, who won the 800-meter at the World Championship in 2009 but was then suspended while her testosterone levels were investigated.

The responses to Semenya, then and since, have been astonishingly cruel—and have sometimes spilled into more overt transphobia, even though she does not identify as trans but has hyperandrogenist, which entails an overproduction of male hormones. To limit these conversations—about Semenya and trans women—to sport and its governing bodies' laws is important, but it's important to recognize that they take place within a transphobic society and a media culture that endlessly undermines the validity of trans identities and people. The recent Swiss court ruling against Semenya, stating she must lower her testosterone level "through medication or surgery" if she wishes to compete at next year's rescheduled Tokyo Olympics, could not have happened without this loud, relentless hostility toward trans people and those who do not conform to gender stereotypes.

So, what is to be done? More so than in the past, women are being encouraged to take up a wider range of sports from a younger age, with more investment and television coverage. This will continue to improve standards and change perceptions, gradually leveling out the inequalities that lead some commentators to identify trans women as a threat. The IOC, and other sporting bodies that take the IOC's lead, should continue to assess on a case-by-case basis—and perhaps draw up firmer guidelines where necessary, working with endocrinologists and other experts. But there is a bigger picture, a deeper ethos to consider in all this.

The decade-long shift from pundits insisting that Semenya wasn't really a woman to the legal demand for her to adjust her hormone levels is the result not just of an overblown moral panic, but also the rise of an international far Right that is, among other things, making efforts to rehabilitate eugenics. Even as "gender-critical" pundits fulminate against trans bodies as "unnatural" (while remaining quite happy to, say, drive a car rather than a horse), some, such as Toby Young, talk about "progressive eugenics"—with its extreme but predictable conclusion that there are objective qualitative standards for how human bodies should look and behave, and deviations should be suppressed. In this context, allowing the issue of a tiny number of trans woman athletes to become a vector for such ideas re-entering the political mainstream seems far more threatening, to me, than the limited progress of the likes of Mianne Bagger, Martine Delaney or Renée Richards.
 
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