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Transgender women athletes banned from women’s Olympic events by new IOC policy (apnews.com)
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[–] quantumlover@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

I personally live in a country that has escaped the worst of it, but even so, do you know that I legally can’t enter the US? Not that I’d want to, but it would literally be impossible for me to provide ID that matches their expectations.

The US doesn't ban trans people or gay people from entering. So what's the actual reason that would you be banned from entering US?

Fuck nuance.

Which proves my point I was making. You don't want nuance. I don't care the reasons, my point stands: you don't care about nuance.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

They ban people whose identity documents don't match their assigned sex at birth (ie, me). All of my documents list me as female. Birth certificate, passport, ID card etc.

So if I declare that I'm trans, they deny me a visa, because my documents don't match their transphobic guidelines. And if I don't declare that I'm trans, and they let me in, then they can hit me for entering the country with "fraudulent" documentation if they later identity me as transgender.

Here's a breakdown of how it works https://www.huschblackwell.com/newsandinsights/new-visa-rules-target-transgender-individuals-considerations-for-employers-and-educational-institutions

my point stands: you don't care about nuance

The irony being here, you aren't interested in nuance either. You've got your line in the sand, and it doesn't matter how much exclusion, harm or bigotry you see, how explicitly exclusion from sports is shown to be a wedge issue to normalise exclusion of trans people from other levels of society, your opinion won't change.