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Anti-Trans Legislation Isn't About "Protecting Girls"—It's About Distracting Us From What Matters (www.marieclaire.com)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/seattle@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/63394849

How do you enforce who is “girl enough” to play sports? In my home state of Washington, the most extreme proposal of its kind is before voters on the November ballot. Measure I-638 would require all girls—but not boys—to be medically sex certified before they can play sports.

In a country rife with sexual assault, young girls would have to undergo invasive inspections of their genitals, or pay for a DNA or hormone test, as part of their school sports physicals. Doctors say genital inspections are not only medically unnecessary to play sports, they can traumatize and physically harm young girls.

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[–] 1 point 3 months ago

All politics around designating in-groups and out-groups is the same form of distraction. The end goal is to consolidate political power, and one of the easiest ways to do it has always been to point at a (usually already marginalized) group of people and claim that they are the cause of all your problems. Then you promise to fix it by punishing that group. Nobody ever seems to notice that the problems don't go away when that happens.

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