IOC to update policy on transgender athletes!

Of course I'm angry, the rules still categorically exclude a class of transgender people and folks call it progress.

Of course I'm angry, you say you understand that gender is a spectrum, but only seem to care about those on either end of the spectrum, ignoring the plight of those in the middle, pretending like there's no way for them to be included.

Of course I'm angry, people instantly assume I'm "appropriating a serious medical condition" because I don't identify with the binary, or might seek to defend people who go with low-dose HRT.

Of course I'm angry, I know people who have lost their home, their job, their marriage, and their children because they are genderqueer and cannot handle the dysphoria without transition, but binary trans people like u/marebineralz would assert that they are just appropriating gender dysphoria, like they made it all up.

Of course I'm angry, I've lost a nonbinary friend to suicide directly over dysphoria when they thought they would never be able to get hormones, and people still assume genderqueer people don't have dysphoria. I guess they were just lying in that suicide note so they could "fit in" with all the other dead trans people. A real fucking transtrender, right?

Of course I'm angry, I've watched people I love live homeless FOR YEARS after they were kicked out of the house as a minor because they are nonbinary trans people and couldn't keep their dysphoria hidden, but people tell me it isn't real.

Of course I'm angry, I bare on my body permanent, painful scarring from when I was mutilated with a blade by a man who physically and sexually assaulted me to punish me for my gender nonconformance, after which I stayed in the closet until I couldn't bare to live for another day, but trans people tell me "you're a dude" (u/marebineralz).

Of course I'm angry, r/transgender, a place that years ago helped me understand my identity during a very dark and dysphoria-filled time in my life, is now a shitshow of binarism and transphobia, and that's not even a dig at you, AJD11.

Of course I'm angry, every day I watch the people I care about suffer and then people tell me that their suffering is appropriated. As if someone would fucking want any of that.

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