Mytholmroyd
I am so very disheartened to watch this complete disregard and disrespect for female athletes and women in general. I really never thought I would see such a reversal in my lifetime.
It came on so suddenly at the end, but the work towards this has been done over many years. I could see the signs of capture organisation by organisation, and largely this was successful because hardly anyone really expected the demands to be what they actually are.
Most of us thought that 'women' would be a group consisting of a very large group of people who are women because they are biologically female and then a small group of trans women who identify as women but are not biologically female, but don't actually wish to enter single-sex spaces or erase all language about the female sex. I thought that they just wish to live as women and to be left alone.
Was I mistaken about that! Women who thought that they were kind and inclusive suddenly found themselves being kicked out of the group 'women' altogether.
The non-binary and trans men demands to redefine the word 'women' as having nothing to do with sex was also just accepted in the name of inclusiveness. And suddenly (it seems), 'women' really can be defined completely by what trans women want the word to be. The rest of us are bleeders or menstruators or individuals with a cervix or egg producers. Oh, and bigots for wanting to keep our name for our demographic group.
At least some men now are getting an inkling of how it feels to be erased, too. I am thinking of the pregnancy questions for all males in health care, but they are not seen as ejaculators yet. Give it time.