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clea lover • hozier enthusiast • noah kahan enjoyer • clikkie • carpenter • livie • swiftie • dancing through the lightning strikes

[ellie 🪐 ۞ @simpforscience]

@faIIawayava I’m doomed

[Sabre @bottleneckloser]

The one thing they really don’t prepare you for in your 20’s is how good playing house feels with your romantic partners feels and how it’s VERY DANGEROUS

[Sarah (read my book 😠) @its_sarahs_alt]

when you think about it, its kinda wild that the default is "you're young, you'll be fine" instead of "youre old, it happens". a 20 year old with chronic pain should be way more alarming than an 80 year old whos knee hurts when they walk too much.

[ellie 🪐 ۞ @simpforscience]

@Sacredix1 I do watch women’s sports. and I was a female athlete for most of my life. both my parents coach high school sports. straw manning a bit. maybe try again?

[ellie 🪐 ۞ @simpforscience]

as a literal biomedical engineer I cannot stand when people use “biology” to justify transphobia. what’s the “complicated biology question” ??? just whether or not they have an advantage? they’ve done studies. it’s not like some big mystery 🙄

[ankle @ankleknuckle]

not to be too centrist, but i think the most frustrating part abt the trans sport discourse is that no one has any idea what theyre talking about. this is a sort of complicated biology question, and everyone thinks they can solve it by thinking abt it for a few minutes

[ًًneenee ⚢ @noonchaand]

if you're a college student in november they fucking kill you btw

[ellie 🪐 ۞ @simpforscience]

sports always have an element of “unfair” physical advantage. it’s luck of the draw. tall people are better at basketball defense. I can’t play high impact sports at all because of my chronic illness. who. cares.
protect trans kids ALWAYS. in every circumstance.

rant over thx

[ellie 🪐 ۞ @simpforscience]

trans women who haven’t started hrt (or are early on it) do have a slight physical advantage. trans women further along their hrt journey have a disadvantage.
but it’s high school sports. why are we alienating teens from their peers because they might be a little stronger?

[Magical Vodka Negro @SeptimusFires]

One of the central conflicts of the trans sports issue that doesn’t get talked about is that people value the winning aspect of youth sports/competitions more than the camaraderie and community of youth sports and I think that’s a fundamental reality that needs to be corrected

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

In Fahrenheit 451, the chief book-burner, Captain Beatty, describes how reading became obsolete because the public demanded increasingly fast-paced entertainments, and those entertainments slowly corroded their ability to think. “Books cut shorter. Condensations. Digests, tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending. Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column … Many were those whose sole knowledge of Hamlet was a one-page digest in a book that claimed, ‘Now at last you can read all the classics.’ … School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches?”

In this passage Ray Bradbury foretells the intellectual hollowing out of the working class, the advent of AI-generated “summaries” of classic novels, the attention-frying culture of short-form video, the relaxation of educational standards into non-existence. All of this in a book published in 1953.

[SOMM🏳️‍⚧️ @BigSOMM]

Ive said it before ill say it again- its the inch people will take a mile from. If you concede trans women cannot be in this space you concede they are “other” than women to such an extent that they can be excluded from all spaces and not even be called women.

[nascar amy @nascaramy_]

apparently a lot of ppl believe in a utopia where trans ppl get every right except for sports and idk i think yall are kinda gullible

[Casey🔆(Trophi) @Casey_A_Ward]

Trans girls in sports isn't a losing issue. "If we don't socially ostracize these children from their same-gender peers, approximately 14 high school softball teams might have a player with a slightly higher than average RBI percentage." Like are you insane? Who cares?

[Evelyn ☭ 🇵🇸 @taxidermysnail_]

the trans girls in sports debate is not and has never actually been about sports and I wish more people understood this

[ellie 🪐 ۞ @simpforscience]

@benson_perry @constans actually I think that sports ARE important and that there aren’t that many trans girls so the impact of some athletes maybe getting one whole place lower than they otherwise would’ve is small. whereas functionally barring an entire group from sports does have a big impact.

[Swift Alert @swiftalert_13]

I haven't seen that much blue pop up on my screen since LA night 6.

[Lajward Zahra @LajwardZ]

everybody shut up its gen z's turn for millenial optimism

[K @kasey_kramer]

Sprung outta bed just like this at 6 AM

[Jasmine has the blood of Akasha in her! @jaxmixe]

Tr*mp’s “STOP THE COUNT” tweet lives rent free in my mind. It’s been 6 years and it still makes me immediately laugh. 2020 was such an unreal year.