Riley Gaines, who tied for fifth behind a number of cis women? Yeah, she looked at her future in sport and decided that grifting was easier and would pay better.

Taylor Silverman, the skateboarder? You want to tell me about the super secret male advantage she lost to? I’m not seeing it. Are you going to claim that banning trans women from chess was reasonable too?

People who are speaking up about this are bigots and sore losers. Trans women don’t win disproportionately, there’s no meaningful advantage, and all anyone ever has are anecdotes, almost all of which fail to check out to any meaningful degree. Riley Gaines didn’t even go down a slot so what the fuck do you want here? Trans women don’t get to compete, regardless of fairness? Because if so, say it with your fuckin chest. Don’t try to pretend it’s about fairness.