Chatted with the brilliant @michaelwaters.bsky.social about the new sex testing policy at the Olympics—which is really a revival of an earlier regime of gender surveillance & control. His book, The Other Olympians, traces this history to the 1936 Games in Berlin.
www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/olympics-gender-testing-anti-trans-genetic-chromosomes-caster-semenya-nazis/

March 31, 2026 - 15:48 UTC

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"In the US, we see women’s sports as the starting point of a much larger push to disenfranchise and strip rights away from trans women ... The Nazis also focused on women’s sports because of the historical fact that women’s sports had been a site of deep gender anxieties since the Olympics started."
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So.... yet another 'inspired by Nazis' action.
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Was it Bob Costas who noted that it's men who transition to women to compete with them and not the other way around. Why is that?
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