Mercury Stardust
"Every time that something happens even remotely close to the trans community, I get inundated with people wanting to hear what my hot take is and people wanna hear what I'm gonna say about it. And to be honest, you all know what I'm talking about at this point. You all have heard every single angle, every single take that you could of heard on this, you've heard it. I just want to remind everybody that this is a human being. That these are women who have worked really hard their entire life, who have dedicated their life to something that they truly love and care deeply about.
And meanwhile, while we're ripping them apart and analyzing them under every single angle we possibly can and talking about them and dehumanizing them and all the things that we're seeing and doing as we're doing. As we are doing that, they're still people. They are all still women who have to go out there and preform underneath high stress situations doing something that was already dangerous but now doing it under such a small lens that it's just burning a hole through their hear and their mind. And I don't know what that feels like, I don't. But I do know what it feels like to be, you know, marginally successful and well known for it. And being on the internet has really put a target on my back. I can not imagine what it would feel like to be someone who people just have absolutely destroyed and have treated lesser than just because they perceive them to be different. I got to remind you, you do not know what the fact are yet, they're coming and they're going and honestly, this is one of those things where it doesn't really matter if it turns out that they have XY chromosomes.
It doesn't really matter if it turns out that they do have some genetic advantage because this is sports, everyone always has genetic advantages. I think what's really important for us to remember, the human side of this. And no matter how hard people try to pull that away from us, no matter how hard they try to make sure that we understand that this is a big picture and this really about women's rights and all that. This is always gonna disproportionately affect more cisgender people then it every could trans people because there's way more cisgender people who are going to be scrutinized for their identity, that there are gonna be trans people because so few trans people actually compete at a professional level in sports. But, it isn't about that, it's about trying to control women, it always is.
So, hang in there and I'm always thinking about all ya." -Mercury Stardust
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