The transphobes are experiencing the contradictions inherent in their ideas. In England, which has become Transphobe Central, they set up some rules that competitors in swimming competitions must compete according to their birth sex. A transwoman showed up for the women’s races, and the organizers turned her away…so she showed up for the men’s competition, in men’s swimgear. She swam topless, like a man.
Anne Isabella Coombes protested a policy banning her from female competitions by competing in an ‘open’ category race wearing men’s sports trunks and no bra.
The 67-year-old swimmer said Swim England, the UK’s competitive swimming regulator, told her she wasn’t eligible to compete in female category races, despite having done so in the past.
Good for her, breaking gender norms with the assistance of transphobic rules-givers.
The media have also chosen to blur out her chest. They’re going to have to make up their mind about these rules someday.
Well she was following their own rules! Only women must cover their tops and they told her to her face she was not one, so what could they do?!? Love it!! We need more topless transitioning women just to watch the bigot’s heads explode when they say “Cover your breasts woman, it’s indecent!” and they yell back, Oh NOW I’m a woman? Funny that!!”
Waiting for Joanne to lose her shit over this.
The world needs more people like her. And less third rate writers with good marketing and fascist tendencies.
@3: THIS.
That’s just marvelous. Well played, madam. Well played indeed.
brilliant!
exposes the blatant hypocrisy adherents to binary gender thinking display.
In the news: https://www.cdu.edu.au/news/lgb-population-doubles-australia-cusp-sexual-revolution
Some time in the last two or three months, I remember reading about a protest at the Scottish Parliament by trans woman. They did the protest topless and more or less challenged the officials to have them arrested for that. Same grounds as here, in order to object to them being topless, the authorities would have to agree that they are woman. Really clever tactic.
Followup to my post at #8…
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/17/scottish-parliament-holyrood-trans-protest-supreme-court/
The protest was on May 17, so just a month ago.
From the article:
Um…. what?
@7–
I’ve looked at lots of studies estimating the prevalence of gender and sexual minorities. It’s very difficult to get really accurate data for obvious reasons (and some non-obvious ones), but my overall take is that at least 5% of any general population is gay/lesbian/trans. Whenever a study finds a lower rate than that, it is a huge blinking sign of social stigmatisation and/or research bias, not lower prevalence.
Did anybody else spot the circular reasoning in the UK Supreme Court’s definition of woman?
s/England/the UK/ – sadly the transphobia extends to Wales, Scotland (where this particular aberration originated) and of course Northern Ireland (which is kind of our equivalent of Texas, Floriduh and Alabama)
As for the blurring, it would be interesting to see what they would have done had she been young and conventionally hot; would the sleazy porn-adjacent tabloids sieze on it as an excuse to print unblurred photos of her boobs?
Reminder to self: get more popcorn.
Some of you have probably heard about Canadian teen swimming phenome Summer McIntosh, who has been tearing up the record books the last few years. The week of June 7th alone she set 3 world records. I suspect sooner or later someone will make a serious attempt at claiming she’s trans. I’m sure someone amongst the “transvestigator” kooks has taken an interest in her.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_McIntosh
The same tactic would also apply to public restrooms. Nancy Mace would go fucknuts if a bunch of trans men (looking like men) would start using the women’s restrooms while she was there.
johnstumbles@13,
The Scottish Parliament actually passed an Act allowing for gender self-identification to replace the requirement for a diagnosis of “gender dysphoria” in order to get a gender recognition certificate – with the support of all Scottish Green and Liberal Democrat MSPs, clear majorities of SNP and Labour MSPs, and even a couple of Tories – overall there was a 2/3 majority in favour. The previous UK Government intervened to overturn this (a constitutional precedent, the first such intervention since the Scottish Parliament was restored in 1999), and the Supreme Court backed them against the Scottish Government. The Scottish Government (now wholly SNP – the SNP leader having trashed the coalition agreement with the Greens) has certainly abandoned the trans community (the Scottish Green Party, of which I am a member, certainly has not, making explicit its determination to stand with transgender people); and the recent Supreme Court case was brought by a group of Scottish transphobes; but until the UK Government overruled the Scottish Parliament, Scotland had the most pro-trans legislation in the UK.
I would temper what John Morales has said about ‘increasing numbers’.
Up to and until the reverse transcriptase inhibitors came out in 1996, to get HIV was to get AIDS and die. RIck and I were going to funerals/memorials/wakes on a weekly basis. We have lost more friends, coworkers, and relations than we ever will for the rest of our lives. And even though gays were a small part of the population even then, AIDS was in the top ten reasons that all men die (no matter what their orientation) in the United States’ mortality reports multiple years running.
I’m sure in your country of the Australia, men died of AIDS just the same as mine. This is just a guess I am making.
What we are seeing is not ‘increasing numbers’. What we are seeing is that ‘whatever causes homosexuality as if it needs a cause because who the fuck cares if it is a choice’ is steady over the decades. Every body that was totally dead wiped out before there was any effective treatment for this disease, has been slowly and naturally replaced over the years. Because people keep on getting born, and some of them end up being gay.