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5/23/25  9:40 am
Commenter: Anonymous

This idea pushes away our sisters and divides us, even though sports should be about coming together
 

Trans women are women. They are my sisters trying to be themselves while not hurting anyone else. They are just trying to exist and why should it be other people forcing them into boxes just because it makes them uncomfortable or scared? 

Trans women are brave enough everyday to be their authentic selves, other people should be brave enough to not fear trans existance, as the community will ALWAYS exist as it always has whether you pretend to ee it or not. You wish to push my sisters into a boxe that others create for their own comfort, at the expense of a woman just existing. 

As a person who grew up on womens' sports teams, I have never hated a girl who had more strength, speed, or talent than me. So, why should I or anyone care if trans women MIGHT be a strong athlete? I only have praise and respect for those who are more talented, and hope to one day be as talented as my teammates who I have learned so much from.

Everyone is built different with different strengths and weaknesses. People can't fear these things and use it as justification to remove transness; people must confront their own insecurities within themselves! And not blame the power womenhood is possible of. If you hate trans women, you hate all women. You push away our sisters in fear of your identity as a woman being stripped away, or because the woman looks different from you or because her history and childhood looks different from yours. 

but at the end of the day we all try to exist as women. and everyday we are hated for it, for wearing make-up for not wearing make-up. For being too cold or for being too emotional. Teased if we are too "tom-boy" and not girly enough, but looked down on and abused if we are too femme. These judgements you then turn around and place on trans sisters despite fighting the issues in your own backyard. 

Women have always been powerful, have always been stellar atheletes, have always found ways to compete right next to men, if not surpassing them, in many ways. I again say you cannot hate and doubt trans-femme existance while also not hating womenhood as a whole; it is deeply hypocritical. 

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