Yesterday, Sonia O'Sullivan wrote an article for The Irish Times, in which she argued for the exclusion of trans athletes from women's sports.
, a University of Pennsylvania swimmer who won the 500-yard freestyle at the NCAA women’s championships in Atlanta last weekend.
The sporting event trended massively on the app, with Lia herself being the subject of transphobic abuse from all corners of the internet. It’s also possible for cisgender people to have hormonal levels outside the range of what we typically consider normal for cis men or women, and there is no single body size for women – whether they are cis, trans and intersex.
Throughout her article, O’Sullivan others trans women. Her words speak to a moral panic in which trans women are presented as threatening forces that cis women must be “protected” against. This sort of rhetoric is not too far removed from the transphobic discourse surrounding the bathroom bills debate, which threatened the existence of trans women in public spaces.
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