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If they want to institute a rule concerning "body measurements" for athletes, then it has to be ACROSS THE BOARD. Ciswomen along with transwomen. Otherwise, it's just blatant bigotry.

As some of us have tried to tell some people here: I have seen more than a few ciswomen built like Lia Thomas, or that are even bigger than her. I've met and been around ciswomen that make me look tiny - taller, broader, bigger hands, you name it. I actually used to go to social events where people mixed up who was cis and who wasn't - they thought a ciswoman with a protruding Adam's apple was trans, and thought I was cis because I don't have one.

There is no "one size fits all", even with cisgender people. Anyone wanting to bitch about Lia Thomas' shoulders, or thinking there need to be size requirements? Then you apply it to ciswomen too. Any ciswoman who's too big? Then hold them to the same narrow-minded standards. That's the only "fair" answer. Otherwise, one set of rules for trans and one set of rules for cis is just bigotry.

I feel your pain. While I wasn't quite out yet, while I wasn't even quite sure what I felt, I was bullied relentlessly for not being "masculine" enough. That started in junior high, and got worse as I went through high school. I endured homophobic slurs, verbal abuse, even physical assaults. I took the CHSPE (CA equivalent to a GED) in 1992 and got the hell out. I couldn't take it anymore. The inner turmoil, and the external abuse, had me such a mess I couldn't even function in class. My GPA went from 3.8 the year before to 1.6 the next year, with some of my teachers bending over backwards to give me a D instead of a F knowing there was something up here besides "Student isn't learning and not making an effort."

That very fall was when I finally learned the word for what the hell I felt and came to grips with who I was. It makes me even more glad I tested out. I can't imagine trying to endure my senior year being out.

This is why some of us snap at all of this. Because we know. Because we've walked the walk. Because we know how damned hard it is walking the road toward understanding and being ourselves - and how much worse it's made when people are throwing tantrums about bathrooms or sports, or pulling the kind of shit Abbott is.

To those who want to support the trans community, and care and have our backs? Thank you.

To those who don't? LEAVE US ALONE. We are having a hard enough time as it is without your hate and abuse making it even worse.

No. We can't make the bigots and transphobes like us. But we sure can - and now need to - tell them all to back the fuck off.