Trans witch hunt of San Jose State volleyball player is not protecting women

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Opinion: Transgender witch hunt of San Jose State volleyball player is not protecting women

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/opinion-transgender-witch-hunt-of-san-jose-state-volleyball-player-is-not-protecting-women/ar-AA1sViYU?ocid=windirect&cvid=423bc89d7b2e430391a3c5528f46c16a&ei=57

Opinion by Nancy Armour (25 Oct 2024)

Nevada officially forfeited Saturday's volleyball game against San Jose State, the fifth school to join a transphobic panic that has no basis in fact or science.

The San Jose State player hasn't commented and her gender identity hasn't been confirmed, yet the most private parts of her life are being picked over and debated.

All because we hate what we don't know and fear what we don't understand.

What they don't realize is punching down on those who are more marginalized does not make them superior. It makes them bigots. Ignorant ones, at that, for not understanding that sex and gender are not the same thing, and both exist on a spectrum.

And rather than "protecting" women athletes, all this hysteria does is put more women in the crosshairs. Any woman who is masculine presenting, or has short hair or dresses like a tomboy, is considered suspect, exemplified by the ugliness at this summer's Paris Olympics. A witch hunt on their teammate has made the season chaotic and uncertain for the rest of the San Jose State team, too.

History will eventually recognize these shameful and uninformed furies for what they are. But the harm they're doing now, to the San Jose State player and so many others, can never be undone.