ass.

still less slam titles than dominic thiem 🤭

also can we appreciate the bravery of the woman screaming <<australia believes olya and brenda>> (zverev’s dv abuse allegations) because honestly it’s so tiring how it’s all always swept under the rug 😭 one of the biggest atp let downs for me

the fact that any athlete can be subjected to "gender testing" on a whim because osmeone thinks she is too strong, too fast, just simply Too Good to be a woman is so fucking antifeminist, how can these people not see it?

all you need is one opponent crying big fragile tears because you were better than her and suddenly you are subjected to humiliating medical tests, every second of which is splashed onto the news as a scandal, and god forbid you are discovered to be intersex! you can be barred forever from sports for being born a woman The Wrong Way, and tricking everyone into thinking you are a Correct Woman. even if you are also just now discovering it. quick question do you, person reading this, know your chromosomes? are you sure? have you had them tested?

maybe i'm stepping out of line here but a cis algerian woman being called a "biological male" to slander her in post is just as much racism as it is transmisogyny. a lot of transmisogynistic rhetoric is in fact, misogynoir in a new shirt is it true that it invokes the specter of a grotesque mockery of "real womanhood" by being too masculine? yes. except "real womanhood" here means whiteness. women of color are always by default degendered in a similar way that transfeminine people are. it's not transmisogyny hitting the wrong target, it's the same racism we've always faced the whole time. we are denied the status of "woman" when it would benefit us because we are physically deemed unfit for it by RACE. it does not fundamentally matter if she really does have an abnormal karyotype or not because a white intersex woman would not have been discussed this way (i'm saying this as an intersex POC)

let us not forget that the modern conception of "woman" which excludes the transfeminized subject was created as a tool of colonialism specifically to differentiate the "de-sexed" "lower races" as unevolved and barbaric, in need of white correction. this concept of gender was then exported to almost every corner of the planet. a "real woman" is always fundamentally as close to white as possible.