your magic is so kind

It’s frustrating that the progressive party line around trans women in sports is that actually they suck at sports just as much as cis women, so they should be allowed to play on women’s teams. like you’re already fucked when you start from the premise that cis women are “biologically” inferior, but don’t worry, trans women are biologically inferior too! Look at all the hormones they took to become weaker and shittier at everything. If you talk about professional sports purely in terms of weight class and skill, all of this becomes incoherent nonsense, but sex segregation remains the baseline that divides skill/class levels in sports, so people just automatically accept that framework when talking about this. I don’t accept that premise to begin with, so all these “debunking” claims feel like eating dirt from cis people. It reveals how misogynistic cis women are about themselves when they use this defense, and now we’re going to humour their own bigotry in order to argue with them? like it puts me in the contrarian position of being like, okay, let’s take this to its logical endpoint, because even if literally every trans woman on planet earth was better at sports than every cis woman, they should still not be excluded from sports. the point of sports is to be good at them. if there’s a group that’s better than everyone else, they should be the ones playing sports. if you’re mad about this then you should try being better at sports.

couldn't stop thinking about these birds so i painted them