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A central tenant of the mainstream LGBTQ community is to "live authentically". That tenant cuts both ways, in that nobody in the trans community is going to force someone to be trans — they wouldn't be "living authentically" if someone were forcing them to be trans. I've seen this point expressed in the LGBTQ community countless times outside of political discussion, usually to someone who is self-questioning, and asking someone else if they're gay/trans/etc., which is community, more often than not, will respond to with "we can't decide that for you."

As for hatred of trans people: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/cpac-spe...

The last political ad I saw, and it was endorsed by Trump, featured a segment furthering the conspiracies around Imane Khelif, implying she was a man, etc.



Every piece of evidence revealed so far points towards Imane Khelif being male. Two blood tests from independent labs showing an XY karyotype, a member of Khelif's coaching team describing problems with chromosomes and hormones while also mentioning that Khelif has been on medication to adjust testosterone levels to bring this closer to the female range, and most recently, a leaked medical report showing that Khelif has a male-specific disorder of sexual development: 5-alpha reductase deficiency (5-ARD).

We can ascertain from all this that Khelif went through male puberty and has the male physical advantage in sport that is caused by male sexual development.

Interestingly this is the same DSD that Caster Semenya has. Semenya is another male athlete who competed in a women's category at the Olympics, for the 800 metres track event, and who also won gold.

Individuals with this condition are sometimes mistaken for female at birth due to internal testes and an underdeveloped penis. And are then issued identity documents erroneously stating that they are female. This is what happened with Semenya and almost certainly is the case with Khelif too.




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