I don’t see how entrusting the process to the IOC will ensure that there’s less transphobia behind the decision. It’s not exactly known for being very progressive :p
And either way, I don’t think fighting to push something through against the popular will, without a clear plan for consensus-building afterwards, is a good way of building lasting change - I’d say it is a good way of creating a backlash, and of selling the Conservative image of the trans movement as anti-democratic and elitist.
Appeasing the bigots and fearmongers has never once in the history of people lead to success and protection of minority rights. All it is is a slowly closing ratchet.
The only method that has ever worked is pushing back. It doesn’t have to mean violence, but it means making people uncomfortable, and challenging their harmful beliefs, not letting them sit comfortably with them
I don’t see how entrusting the process to the IOC will ensure that there’s less transphobia behind the decision. It’s not exactly known for being very progressive :p
And either way, I don’t think fighting to push something through against the popular will, without a clear plan for consensus-building afterwards, is a good way of building lasting change - I’d say it is a good way of creating a backlash, and of selling the Conservative image of the trans movement as anti-democratic and elitist.
Appeasing the bigots and fearmongers has never once in the history of people lead to success and protection of minority rights. All it is is a slowly closing ratchet.
The only method that has ever worked is pushing back. It doesn’t have to mean violence, but it means making people uncomfortable, and challenging their harmful beliefs, not letting them sit comfortably with them
I don’t necessarily disagree with any of that, but I also don’t think it invalidates any of what I just wrote.