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I was asked why the moral panic around Algerian boxer Imane Khelif was so centred on trans people when there’s no evidence that she’s trans. I thought I’d share my thoughts publicly.

The reason is that, in many ways, transphobia isn’t about trans people, it’s about what trans people mean to ideologies of race and gender. The controversy about the Olympic boxers is linked to rising anxieties about the line between men and women becoming increasingly blurred in contemporary society. These anxieties are fuelled by right-wing movements who see rigid divisions between men and women as critical to maintaining white social, economic, and political control. Because trans people are seen as challenging the justification of gender norms and roles based on biology and reproduction, they’re targets of particularly intense hostility and violence. My colleague Blu Buchanan and I tracked that racial logic a bit more in depth in a truthout essay a few years ago. White supremacist ideologies are heavily invested in rigid gender norms and roles because they see them as necessary to white reproduction.

The moral panic about ‘gender ideology’ is about trans people, yes, but it’s also explicitly about cis men and women not conforming to gender ideals that see men and women as fundamentally different forms of life with different roles in a society organized around the nuclear family. Women have to act and look a certain way to be considered ‘really’ women, much in the way that gay men are deprecated as ‘not real men.’ This moral panic manifests in the disproportionate targeting of racialized women and especially Black women for not conforming to white ideals of femininity. This dynamic is only amplified in the context of elite sports given the pervasive association of athletic ability with masculinity, especially in contact and strength-based sports like boxing as opposed to, say, gymnastics.

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Imane Khelif of Algeria makes it to the final of the women’s 66kg boxing after winning against Thailand’s Janjaem Suwannapheng!

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I'm back with another crack meme, let's see how well this one does

If it does as well as my New Yorker Post then I'll make a navigation list for the memes :D

Bonus:

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hating furries is just a silencer on the gun that is hating on lgbt+ tbh

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Shearing half a sheep seemed a simple way to show a season's growth of wool, but photographer Cary Wolinsky was wrong. The half-shorn sheep tended to lose their balance and topple to wool-ward. It took many tries before merino sheep number 30 “became our hero," Wolinsky said.

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blushing, giggling, kicking his feet and twirling his hair

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please enjoy these night agent memes

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feeling particularly feral about caretakers watching over absolutely exhausted, sleeping whumpees

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The Night Agent (2023) S01E04 "Eyes Only"

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#i’m?? worth it??????

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the fact that rose did not hesitate to steal from the right wing conspiracy nuts was SO fucking funny

i love that their dynamic is just:

Source: The Night Agent, Episode 1 (Netflix, 2023)

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I watched "blue eyed samurai" in two days in one breath....

My Instagram.

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forgot to post Mizu from couple of months ago here!! she was also in drafts for lloooonnggg