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Trans Woman Forced To Compete Against Men Swims Topless In Protest (gomag.com)

submitted 20 hours ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/transgender@piefed.blahaj.zone

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[–] dandelion@piefed.blahaj.zone 133 points 19 hours ago (14 children)

“They confirmed that I need to wear a female swimming costume despite having to compete with the men, which ‘outs’ me as a woman who is transgender,” Coombes told the Reading Chronicle. “I explained to the person on the phone that they are not allowed to do that, and he didn’t have an answer.”

so she's a woman enough to be required to wear a women's swimsuit, but not woman enough to be allowed to swim in the women's competitions?

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 16 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Discrimination isn't logical. They can't logic their way into it.

[–] dandelion@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 hours ago

they might try to rationalize their discrimination, and they might attempt to make it logical for application in law and other contexts - it's important to show the irrationality, not because I expect the bigotry and discrimination to be rational, but because so many others might think it is rationally defensible and not see the contradictions. Not that hypocrisy dunking is always effective, but it's at least worth pointing out.

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