Trifleorbust describes the situation of a woman athlete losing her place to compete for her country to a transwoman as "unfortunate".
"Unfortunate" strikes me as an oddly passive word to use. None of this is down to chance - the situation would be better described as "inevitable" and "anti women" IMO.
And that is why women care about this shit - because it is anti woman and inevitable because we live in a world which favours men over women. Women always get called haters when they point out that men are trampling over us and our humanity. It's the oldest and laziest trick in the book. Feminists have been getting called man haters since forever and calling us transphobes is just another spin on that. Same goes for the tone policing - women are allowed to mildly disagree with misogyny but only if they do so politely in dulcet tones whilst showing respect to misogynistic men. Know your place wimmen in other words.
This incident is an outrage. It's doubly outrageous because it is exactly what all the liberal transmaidens told us we were transphobic scaremongering haters for predicting would happen when self identification became a thing. Just like all the other erosions of women's spaces, rights, safety, voices and representation. They are all being colonized by transwomen and at an alarming rate. The liberals told us that this wouldn't happen. Now it is happening they tell us we are oppressive haters because we object. Goodness knows where this will all and up. I think we're fucked for at least a generation. It's going to be hard to get our humanity and right to define and be a class back again. We have become the classless sex class - we exist as a class to be oppressed but not as a class to oppose that oppression.
And all that so that a small group of men can live out a woman hating fetish or exercise homophobia. God how they hate us (and yet we are accused of being the hate filled ones!).