Taylan (Grass-Touching Arc) on Nostr: I'm not trying to gotcha anyone. I find it genuinely cruel to insist that a person, ...

I'm not trying to gotcha anyone. I find it genuinely cruel to insist that a person, who was born with female anatomy and was always understood to be and treated as a girl/woman, is actually a "man."

In pretty much every way that actually matters to living in human society, such a person is nearly indistinguishable to a normal woman, and not comparable to a normal man, yet people insist on calling such people "men" now for a political reason.

I have a relative who was so androgynous as a child, I used to genuinely keep forgetting whether she was a girl or a boy. I don't know if she has an intersex condition, but she eventually became a transman and started to post incredibly cringe-inducing performative masculinity on Facebook, imitating the most embarrassingly cliched stereotypes of a Turkish man. It's probably because society fucked her up for "looking like a man."

When I look at Imane Khelif and listen to her speak, I see an androgynous middle eastern woman. I imagine that people constantly calling her a "man" is not exactly doing wonders to her mental health, assuming she's just an intersex person who was considered female at birth and then grew up as a woman and continues to live as one.

Maybe Khelif has a condition that makes her competing against other women unfair, in which case I would understand excluding her from boxing, but to call her a "man" is just straight up cruelty towards a (presumably intersex) woman in my opinion.