The San Francisco Chronicle says that “transphobic apparel” is in fashion. What do they mean by that? Shirts that say “Save Girls Sports.”
The say that these shirts are “terrorizing the trans community” but are still selling like hot cakes. The word “terrorizing” doing some heavy lifting here. Seeing a shirt you don’t like is terror? Have these people ever heard of Guantanamo Bay!?
The push to wear the shirts comes from the common sense opinion that most people share: they do not want males to compete with girls in sports.
The Chronicle says that this is a crazy thing because “Studies of human genetics show that sex, like gender, is a spectrum, and the cases of female athletes like Algerian boxer Imane Khelif show that there are many, many ways a woman can look. On a basic level, not all cis women even have XX chromosomes, so these shirts make no sense.”
What rubbish. Gender can be performed on a spectrum but sex chromosomes cannot. There are rare genetic sex chromosome conditions but that has nothing to do with trans-identified male athletes in sports. There is an obvious advantage for biological males in sports. This is not terror. This is biology.
And if trans people can wear whatever they want, shouldn’t they let others do the same?
