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What transphobes put Imane Khelif through shows us how dangerous transphobia can be to all women—trans, cis, intersex and nonbinary alike.
After all, few trans women actually compete in women’s sports, especially at elite levels. Some do and are good at it—like swimmer , who was recently banned from professional women’s swimming competition. Thomas went through male puberty and developed an advantageous physique for swimming. That doesn’t mean Thomas won every event in which she swam, but she won enough to be perceived as a threat to “real” women swimmers.
By positioning themselves as defenders of women, transphobes can offer a performative concern for women. They make a big deal of speaking out against trans women in sports as a threat to women. Yet somehow, they are strangely silent on the things that actually harm women, like domestic violence, sexual assault, income inequality, sexual harassment and so on.
The first assumption is that biology is destiny. The transphobic argument assumes that bodies born as male are destined to be superior to bodies born as female . Trans women must be better than cis women in sports because men are always better than women in sports. The second assumption is rooted in the first. Because biology is binary, men and women are fundamentally different, so much so that men should be only masculine and women should be only feminine.When we saw her boxing, she didn’t look like a ‘girly girl’ . She didn’t match the transphobes’ expectations of women based on their notions of the biological binary. So they assumed she was trans. But she’s not. She’s a cis woman.
We also know that norms of femininity are applied differently to women of color. If transphobia puts cis and trans white women at risk, the risk is exacerbated for women of color, especially those like Khelif andCaster Semenya of Team South Africa competes in the World Cross Country Championships on Feb. 18, 2023, in Bathurst, Australia.
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