And which the pony, is a phony, was a lie

It’s starting

Bernie Sanders (not a Dem but whatever)

Ruben Gallego

Elizabeth Warren

Ro Khanna

Chris Van Hollen

Sheldon Whitehouse

Brian Schatz

Chris Murphy

Ken Martin

Tim Walz

This is a change to the interpretation and implementation of the equalities act which legally prevents any trans person from using the correct changing rooms, toilets, or even attending gym classes.

It’s more than a bathroom ban. It’s something that will prevent us living our lives.

And, as it stands, the guidance is markedly worse for trans men than it is for trans women.

Taken from page 268 of the pdf linked above:

This guidance sets out, in a legally binding code, that trans men can be barred from both men’s and women’s facilities.

While it does go on to say that preventing us from accessing any services might be grounds for a discrimination claim, that’s in direct contradiction to the paragraphs shown above, and right now is purely hypothetical until tested in a court of law.

As the news of the government’s decision to enforce this guidance spreads, a lot is going to be said about the impact on trans women. That’s good, a lot needs to be said.

I doubt, though, that as much will be said about the impact on trans men. I doubt it because when this guidance was first released as a draft I saw dozens of not hundreds of comments talking about how the only impact was to trans women, joking that trans men should use the women’s toilets to make transphobes uncomfortable.

Please don’t fall into that pattern this time, not now this is really happening.

Protect trans women, please, but I am begging you, protect trans men, too.

This guidance systematically erases us from public life. It is deliberate. We are not collateral damage, we are the target.

When I was doing my criminology degree, I went to several professors with several thesis ideas, and all of them were denied. These were all ideas based on transmasculine crime and victimology stats. Every professor shot down every thesis I had on ideas related to transmasc victims of various crimes.

Their reasoning? There's no need for this. This is useless. Nobody is interested in reading about trans men and transmascs being victims of crimes. They wouldn't even let me do my thesis on estimating more accurate stats on transmasculine victims of homicide. Which is an INCREDIBLY important thing!

he was clearly already part of the team before he came out and was accepted and welcomed to stay on the team upon coming out as trans. if he was kicked off the team, the likelihood he would ever get to play the sport he enjoyed in any professional capacity would be very very small.

yes, he's on a woman's team, but he'd already built a community with these women before he even came out. ripping a supportive community away from him, needlessly, would just be cruel. this isn't some transmisogynistic campaign against trans women. in fact this has nothing to do with trans women. this is about a man who has been given space and a supportive community to be himself in a sport he loves. he hasn't been asked to detransition, he isn't being misgendered and no one on his team is being transphobic.

you know who is being transphobic? you lot. the malgendering im seeing in the comments and reblogs is atrocious. fucking shame on you.

this is a story of a man making the very best he can out of an otherwise tough situation. todays political climate makes it increasingly difficult for any trans person to play sport in any capacity, let alone on a team of the gender they identify as. no doubt there will be bigots coming at him, misgendering him and crowing for him to be kicked off his current team, but denying him space in any mens team either. you want to add to those voices too? calling him a traitor and a transmisogynist because *checks notes* he's not being kicked off the team he's already been a part of and he's being respected and welcomed as the person he always was? seriously?? if so, then there's something seriously wrong with you.