#transvestigators

[victusinveritas]

[animentality]

[autisticexpression2]

This bullshit around Imane Khelif has to be the biggest mass delusion I've seen from the right, and that's really saying something.

Transvestigators are nothing new. People have been calling Michelle Obama a man for years. But it has mostly been a niche thing not even taken seriously by most republicans.

Qanon is unhinged but mostly deals with that which is unknown to the average person, leaving room for speculation, however wild.

But Imane Khelif's gender is a straightforward issue. She is objectively a cis woman. This isn't at all debatable by any sane standard. There is absolutely no reason to believe otherwise. She is a cis woman from a conservative Muslim country where any expression of queerness is illegal. There is no way a transgender or otherwise queer person would be selected to represent Algeria. There are even photographs of her as a little girl if you're still not convinced.

But the right has arbitrarily decided that she's a man based on absolutely nothing, and suddenly, the question of whether or not this WOMAN has a penis, an objective true or false question, has become a culture war issue. So now it doesn't matter what PROOF you bring up. Saying this woman is a woman is woke now, so they have to disagree on principle against all evidence and logic. People who have been screaming about precise biological definitions of gender for years now have decided someone's gender based on vibes alone because irony is fucking dead.

And it's not just a niche view held by the more unhinged online sections of the right. Celebrities like Elon Musk, JK Rowling, and Logan Paul are tweeting it. Politicians are tweeting it. Babylon Bee is publishing "satirical" pieces about how abusing women is now an Olympic sport.

We are living in the absolute stupidest timeline.

[beckyts]

In a world full of people who couldn’t care less, be someone who cares more.

[odinsblog]

Brianna is making themselves out to be a victim of “Trans Twitter”? Lmao, that is such a reliable canard. Trans twitter, that all powerful group that controls everything, is coming after poor Brianna—who remember, didn’t do anything wrong except back up a trans/homophobic racist by calling a Black woman a man 🙄

Hoo boy 😮‍💨

Brianna Wu has officially gone the route of Caitlyn Jenner

As if Brittney Griner didn’t go through enough hell as a fucking Russian prisoner, Brianna Wu had to get that “pick me, I’m different but still terfy” dig in, to make clear whose side they’re on

BTW, the phrase everyone seems to be missing in that twitter thread is “racialized misogyny” … that’s the reason a lot of white Starbucks feminists train their fire on Black women so much. Remember how Lena Wilson tried to go after Amandla Stenberg? Same thing: “queer” white women going after Black women for clout points—and the second they get called out on their bullshit, they fall back on playing the victim of an “innocent” misunderstanding. They tried to throw a Black person under the white feminism bus to grow their own status. And they absolutely know what they are doing, and you better believe that if their dig was more well received, there wouldn’t have been any apology afterwards (half assed as it was)

And that’s all without me even getting into the fact that Brianna was tweeting from a notorious conservative racist transphobe, Lauren Chen

Anyway, remember: if you scratch a TERF, a racist bleeds

[very-uncorrect]

TERFs have went from claiming cis celebrities are trans to claiming trans celebrities were always cis

[femrodeeeeo]

They're going after Katie Ledecky now lol

[tiredangrydyke]

Where are the terfs?

You heard me, where are you?

Your rhetoric of racism and transphobia is out there nearly bringing cis women’s careers to an end bc they don’t look like women are “supposed to”

Imane khelif is a biological woman. She is just fucking good at boxing, Muslim and African.

Transitioning is illegal in Algeria and haram anyway.

You vow to protect “real” women, but when it comes to real women if colour you are silent, and the people that are speaking up about this disgrace, are transgender people. Because we get it. We are truly fighting for equality.

You all make me ashamed to be a radical feminist.

[whitehairedanimeboyfriend]

is this anything

[victusinveritas]

They always know, don't they?

(They know nothing, folks, that's Todd Howard, the guy who helped design Elder Scrolls and a bunch of Fall Out.)

[animentality]

[bynux]

Transphobes will call us "mentally ill" and then proceed to obsess over whether or not random celebrities actually have dicks.

[thingstrumperssay]

People are saying that Radcliffe’s pregnant girlfriend is trans because she’s taller than him and she touches his shoulders.

[recovering-womanhood]

Please stop transvestigating based on a persons looks and focus on actual systemic change like idk, not having gendered bathrooms where rape/assault can take place. Nobody can “always tell”. You can not claim to care about female people and advocate for this. You especially can not claim to care about the safety of detrans female people, when we are often mistaken for transwomen or men due to the effects of testosterone.

[burnitalldownism]

I feel like we should get on board with the transvestigators. But we need to go balls to the wall (pun intended) with it.

“You’re right! Nicole Kidman’s clearly a biological male……wait a second. Why’s your nasal bridge so defined?”

“Of course Daniel Radcliffe’s a biological female! Hold on……what’s up with your right earlobe?”

[cartoonscientist]

can trans mascs reclaim this as a copypasta? bc i really want to stickerbomb downtown berkeley with ANDRE THE GIANT WAS 7'4" AND 650 LBS. A GENETIC FEMALE. and maybe some kind of vaguely queer-looking self-invented occult symbol, I haven't completely refined my plans yet

EDIT: see, people are picking up what I'm putting down here