I love what Trent told Ted because HE’S RIGHT. Ted didn’t magically reach Total Football in an episode, he’s been slowly building the strong foundation to make it possible since s1.
Because if Ted hadn’t gotten through to Jamie back in s1, we wouldn’t have a Jamie Tartt who willingly and enthusiastically put himself out of the scoring position to give everyone else a chance to shine. For the team.
If Ted hadn’t vocally insisted on the team bonding and properly getting to know each other, he wouldn’t have a cohesive group that knows each other well enough inside and outside the field to truly see and guess what their teammates need.
If Ted hadn’t earned their respect and love through his unyielding kindness and faith in them, he wouldn’t have a team that in turn is willing to go along with his weird and uncomfortable training tactics. But they trust him blindly now in a way that they never would have when he first arrive.
If Ted hadn’t created an environment where every player feels seen and heard and comfortable speaking up, Jamie would’ve never taken the leadership position he’s slowly been building himself to this season.
If Ted hadn’t gotten through to Roy and later pushed for him to accept training Jamie, we wouldn’t have a Roy who volunteered to train Jamie and inadvertently made him the ideal midfield powerhouse the team needed to succeed.
And so on and so on. And Trent, who has been witnessing this since s1 and more intimately in s3, noticed that. He’s so right and he should say it.
“And I remember Seb standing by me and taking a knee with me and then after that just seeing him grow in terms of the confidence he had, to come out of his shell and fight for what he believed in and we basically stood arm in arm against lots of different causes.”
“I was really, really grateful for Seb being with me.”
"But only 2% of the population is intersex. It's not that common. Why should we reframe or perception of gender for intersex people?"
Completely ignoring the fact that empathy exists. You do realize that 2% of the population in the medical field is considered very common, yes?
2% of children and 0.5% of adults have a peanut allergy and that's so common that they have entire rules around in in public spaces.
0.24-1% of the population has Rheumatoid arthritis. That's an eighth to a half of the number of intersex people!
1-2% of people are estimated to have autism, and that's considered a common condition.
0.1%-2.6% of people will get melanoma in their life time, and that's considered common.
1.2% of people have epilepsy and that's considered common.
Completely ignoring statistics like 6% of women have PCOS (which is a condition that can fall under the intersex umbrella). 2% of the population in the medical field is considered a common condition, and ergo by medical terms intersex is in itself common.
I don't think you realize how big 2% is. That's 2 in 100 people. If you walk into 3 fully filled classrooms (when I was in school a full classroom was 40 students). Chances are you just saw 2 intersex kids and didn't even know it.
So yeah. I think intersex is common enough to include in our discussions around gender and how transphobic rules affects intersex people.
so yknow how schools will have those unofficial, student-run meme accounts?
well i was thinking about what that’d look like for UA:
i imagine the account is run by a trio of incredibly jaded third year non-heroics courses students who’ve all agreed to drop out together to work at kfc if they can’t make it to graduation