Edits to Add #4
This one is Brilliant that I can say because I'm usually so hard on myself that's how you know I'm proud of it!
Something that’s been spiraling through my YouTube feed as of late is this “massive” controversy about Hasan Piker and the “Democrats selling out trans people for corporate donors,” mainly involving Hasan’s ongoing criticisms of Gavin Newsom’s lack of outright verbal support for the trans community against the ongoing attempts of erasure of queer people and those with disabilities. The recent moves to strike down Section 504 of the ADA in 9 different states by the Heritage Foundation and many others, as initial attacks on trans people, and the never-ending crusade to erase us from existence, never ceases to horrify me as someone who has finally been able to find the affirming care I’ve always wanted to feel comfy in my own skin. Especially given the new avenue the Conservative right is trying to take to do it is giving parallels to the beginning stages of the AktionT4 programs in Nazi Germany at best, and flashbacks of my childhood and being subjected to pills and concrete-walled psych wards on a daily basis have kept me up for more than I thought would affect me, even now. But as I look through how queerness and trans existence has gone from a harmless gimmick of the 1990’s and 2000’s with Mrs. Doubtfire and the national legalization of gay marriage in my childhood, it really seems like a massive chunk of the U.S. populace was brainwashed into hatred overnight to a group that was presumably weird but harmless in the past. It makes you wonder what changed in the last 5 years so drastically that even loud and proud trans activists and allies have a hard time combating against this core argument of the right.
“Men don’t belong in women’s sports because of the physical disadvantages they carry with them due to their original sex being male and therefore pose a danger to women in locker rooms and other vulnerable women-only spaces. We as proud feminists must protect these spaces for real women and save the few lost little girls who reject their femininity by choosing to ruin their endocrine systems to compete. We are real women and must protect that at all costs.”
I’ve seen this argument being played out over and over and over again, and every time the rebuttal of this argument is a long-winded argument about how sexual expression is a complex form of human biology that even the most well-meaning of allies don’t really understand. Biology is a very mind-blowing subject as someone who’s spent a good chunk of my life studying it, researching it, and teaching it as an aquarium tour guide and the “fun facts”/human search engine friend that will look up the phylogeny of a hyena for curiosity’s sake, and I safely say with absolute certainty that this area of human biology is very understudied and therefore anything we do learn from modern research into genetics and human development is relatively new in comparison to other fields of human anatomy. We know less about the ocean than we know about the moon, and we know less about the complexities of our physiology than we do about the reproductive habits of banana slugs, which is both fascinating and horrifying at the same time. Google at your own risk.
The point of the matter here is that debating someone who believes their limited/nonexistent understanding of biology is a realistic justification for an active genocide of an entire demographic with a rebuttal based on legitimate research that is still ongoing is an understandable counter move to make, but in doing so you realize far too late that this completely misses the point because of an assumption that the left makes again and again: that the argument “no men in women’s sports” is founded in ignorance alone, and if you offer the correct information then you can “educate” this person to the “right” path of becoming an ally or, in Clavicular’s case, coming out of the closet. What this assumption doesn’t address is not the semantics of gender roles and sex but the relevance sports place in day-to-day life. The reason so many people get wrapped up in transphobia and bigotry is because they see queerness as a disruption to “women’s sports,” which to many people around the country has less to do with “tribal psychology” and so much more to do with how economic mobility is tied to direct access to higher education.
For so many people across the country, higher ed has been a gateway to better economic opportunities that has been gatekept for decades by skyrocketing tuition costs and predatory student lending practices. Schools like Harvard, Yale, and Columbia are known for their prestige on any resume, but if you come from a community of traditionally low opportunity and your local public school doesn’t have the resources to keep up with the private tutoring costs and SAT prep of more affluent areas, then if you want a future for yourself you’re basically out of luck. That is unless you can land yourself on the college swim team and train your way to a better life through fighting, competing, and winning championship after championship, playoff after playoff, Olympic track meet after conditioning camp. The college sports industry as we know it today, with all of its prestige and power that comes with it.
On the surface, it’s giving an Adam Sandler movie or a typical American high school show or any American underdog story you can think of off the top of your head. In fact, the underdog “get your head in the game” trope is as stereotypically American as you could possibly get, so it’s no wonder why any seemingly minor changes to major sports events like Bad Bunny performing at the Super Bowl tend to ruffle feathers now more than ever. So is the integration of “gender identity politics” going back to the 90’s with “girls don’t play baseball” and so on, but the more I looked past the “cooties” and “girl boss” tropes I noticed something that the halftime shows and pyrotechnics cover up very well. Sports are not a culture in the same way that “nerd culture” is, at least not on a logistical level. The NFL, NBA, and MLB are not just brand names on a t-shirt: they are corporations. Massive corporations with huge profit margins, and thus a plethora of infrastructure, vendors, and organizations to support the industry. An industry whose generation success has only been made possible because of the support of both governmental and academic fields supporting it and the billions of dollars it makes in profits every single year. The money flows in the pro sports fields like wine in the Gardens of Babylon, but much like Babylon, the paradise is only skin-deep because if I’ve learned anything from the early movements of feminism, it’s that getting a seat at the table is the modern game of thrones. A never-ending cycle of harm that no one can ever truly benefit from, and the most recent demographic to get their turn at the top is none other than white cis women of the last 40 years or so and, of course, the outlier Black woman who chooses to play the game at a disadvantage by any means necessary, which for most of my life I too thought was a truly noble pursuit. You go into that board room or on that field and you show everyone who ever doubted you that you deserve to be recognized, that you are exceptional, and that you deserve a chair at Valhalla like the sports heroes who came before you. You train and sacrifice to be a girl boss and a bad bitch and inspire young girls everywhere as to what can b
e accomplished if you never listen to your haters and move forward without a care for what anyone else thinks about who you are or where you come from.
Strange. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this movie before…
There’s a word I’m thinking of to describe it…
What is it…
oh yeah
Propaganda.. in the NUDE!
While all of this fanfare and slow-motion photo-finishes is going on, did anyone else notice how this whole system has the very same structure of The Hunger Games? You have children from impoverished parts of the country needing to physically compete for the mere chance at a life for themselves and their families because the means of accessing higher ed have been financially gatekept for decades by a select group of individuals with an obscene amount of generational wealth, who create these live-broadcast events to watch for their own amusement and profit from every other industry that goes into supporting the whole operation. Food vendors, merchandise, fame fortune, the whole nine yards, and yet the question I see nobody asking is:
Why should your ability to improve your station hinge on the whims of wealthy elites who see potential in your performance enough to not only facilitate such events but offer financial compensation in the form of school scholarships to cover overpriced tuition rates at colleges all over the country?
If the goal is to improve your station in life, wouldn’t it just be easier to make college more affordable?
The answer: of course it would, but that’s not why these athletic programs exist.
Before the late 19th century, college athletics consisted largely of informal gatherings organized by students themselves rather than the massive spectacles they are today. The first college game took place on November 6, 1869, when Rutgers defeated Princeton 6–4 in football, which incidentally was the first game of American football ever played after the game’s invention by former Yale professor and President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt. Following this new game and the mogging master himself Teddy Roosevelt gaining power in Washington, a movement swept across American colleges, increasing the number of schools participating in athletics. As sports grew in popularity for a country slowly healing from the Dust Bowl era and the aftermath of the Reconstruction age, colleges began actively recruiting individuals and offering scholarships to top Ivy League schools as early as the 1870s, and as the Industrial Revolution moved forward and the United States moved toward the turn of the 20th century, colleges and universities were providing financial support and incentives to athletes and an American tradition was born.
As college campuses became a spot for young people to gather and share ideas on academics, so too was it commonplace for non-students to participate in games to increase a team’s success, and thus gave way to the underdog mythos of the farm boy who couldn’t read or write to save his life but could run like the wind with a football in his hand.
As exciting as all of this is, it was still the 20th century and the women’s suffrage movement had yet to go national, at least until after the Great Depression and Prohibition era’s had come to an end and the effects of both world wars and the labor required to keep up the fight combined. It became very clear that traditional gender roles were rather inconvenient when the men were overseas fighting Nazis in Normandy. The draft slashed the traditional labor force and with no other option, by the most misogynist men in power at the time, the women were sent to the factories to keep up the fight on the back end. Logistical and technical skills were in high demand, and those skills needed to be taught by none other than higher ed and the full force of funding to make tuition as affordable as possible to get more skilled women into the workforce and onto the factory floor as quickly as possible. The Rosie the Riveter posters come to mind, as well as the countless stories of girl boss energy on so many fronts.
But then the war ended, the men came home, and it was back to the kitchen for so many skilled and highly qualified women.
Highly skilled indeed.
Because once the higher ed jinn was out of the bottle there was no going back to the way things were, much to the horror of the patriarchy. By this time, college athletics had become so popular that a regulatory body was put in place to ensure that college athletics and higher ed could continue to prosper. In 1905, the NCAA was created with the intention of regulating college sports and distributing scholarships and awards based on an ever-growing list of bylaws and regulations, most of which to this day are products of their time and primarily meant to gatekeep and enforce the rigid status quo of racial and sexual hierarchies, especially in the southern U.S. states. As the former Confederate states never fully recovered from their beatdown during the Civil War, the violent backlash from Reconstruction served more to salt the earth following the end of slavery. With this new wave of feminism in the wake of the brief taste of freedom gained during WWII, the fight was on to maintain white supremacy and patriarchy on a rapidly shifting playing field.
So in an attempt to slow down the movement of women entering college and choosing careers over forced motherhood, admissions to colleges began to get more and more strict. Tuition rates began to climb, as did a growing usage of standardized testing like the SAT, ACT, or IQ tests that were formulated specifically to ice out anyone who wasn’t a wealthy white man with questions regarding nautical skillsets and terminology and a heavy emphasis of eugenics.
Then, in 1950, under the governance of the NCAA, colleges developed the athletic scholarship as a way to pay prospective student-athletes to offset the enrollment cuts these restrictions would have directly caused, thus paving an alternative for low-income prospective students to get access to higher ed on the basis of athletic ability.
This system on its own was already filled to the brim with discriminatory policies and rife with abuse for everyone lacking power, privilege, or social capital, but when the Cold War came knocking and the space race began, then once more the privileged and powerful were willing to look the other way if it meant beating the Soviet Union in the space race. Thus, the modern U.S. federal student loan system began in 1958 with the passage of the National Defense Education Act (NDEA). With the rising cost of equipment and NASA-based research, Congress passed this legislation in direct response to the Cold War and the launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union. This act established the first federal loan program (now known as the Perkins Loan) for students in critical scientific and technical fields, with some major exceptions for a select group of remarkable minds you may be familiar with from the biopic Hidden Figures. The jinn was out of the bottle once more and magic was made at NASA time and time again, which of course gave serious endowments to the Ivy League schools and ultimately raised the bar for higher ed costs across the board, which at the time was manageable enough if your career choice demanded it.
More and more colleges during this time were STEM-focused, so the “meat heads” who would have benefited from athletic scholarships were getting a bit left behind. However, this all changed at the NCAA’s annual convention in 1973 where it was decided that athletic scholarships should be able to cover some, or at least a significant portion, of a student’s college tuition, primarily as an incentive to boost school spirit and morale and ensure enrollment rates stayed in the green for the institution.
At this time, athletic scholarship awards had not increased due to the Perkins loans being initiated to drive more funding towards STEM, and thus were no longer enough to cover enough tuition to make a difference. But as the Cold War came to a close and the rising backlash from the conservative right in the late 70’s to mid 80’s against the feminists and progressive movements of the 60’s grew to a boil, it began the mission of the conservative right to “dumb things down again” and make sure that we had enough strong athletic men to go fight in Vietnam and Korea who were too busy at game day practice to do well in class and weren’t educated enough to ask meddling questions about why communism is the root of all evil or anything else the conservative right said was the truth. And thus the jinn was forcibly shoved back in the bottle once more in a long and brutal campaign to make sure that the brutal and hostile world we spent the last 100 years escaping from would return once more: the movement to make the Gilded Age great again, spearheaded by everyone’s favorite catalyst of the apocalypse.
RONALD F**CKING REAGAN
after a long career as a movie actor and TV star, Ronald Reagan served as the 33rd Governor of California for two terms, from January 2, 1967, to January 6, 1975. Once he was elected in 1966, he focused on “welfare reform,” cutting state spending on things like state-regulated mental hospitals and the formerly tuition-free public higher education system in California, setting a precedent for increased college tuition nationwide.
On top of the fact he signed the Mulford Act in 1967 to restrict public carrying of firearms, primarily to target the Black Panthers as they were the ones running the back-of-house logistics for legendary civil rights movement strikes like in 1977, when protesters took over federal buildings in 10 cities in California, including a month-long sit-in in San Francisco, to demand the issuance of 504 regulations. That, plus a decade of more protests and movements, led to the formulation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) as we know it today.
Combined with various other very unpopular moves as his presidency took hold, the Reagan administration prioritized federal student loans over direct grants for programs, increasing the financial burden on students and families. Drastic funding cuts cut federal education spending by approximately 25%. As California governor, he even cut state funding to public universities by 20%.
The Higher Education Amendments of 1986 allowed for the consolidation of student debts and extended repayment periods while also reducing loan subsidies to make supply for federal loans slimmer and competition for funding even more strained, all while slowly spoon-feeding the public this idea of college as a “ticket to work” program with a focus on market value rather than societal benefit and intellectual pursuits. The idea of going to college was warped to fit the model of the perspective that higher education should focus on vocational, profit-making skills rather than purely intellectual pursuits regardless of their benefit to society as a whole.
This campaign waged against higher ed, backed by numerous organizations like none other than the Heritage Foundation, who were a major supporter of Reagan’s campaign and the authors of the modern-day death of American democracy: Project 2025, whose tactics and plans for higher ed in America are not a new conspiracy or scheme but rather a second attempt at moves they failed to implement during the Reagan Era. A proposed income-contingent direct student loan demonstration project, as seen with the rapid move to end any and all loan forgiveness programs, and a second attempt to eliminate the Department of Education once and for all.
The backlash was almost immediate even back then, and the need to reframe the violent crackdowns against dissent as “addressing university protests” became a hallmark tactic during his administration, all for the goal of shifting higher education from a public good to a personal investment, causing a pivot from grants to loans and sparking the modern student debt crisis as well as the homelessness crisis in California for good measure. It was a full return to the days before the jinn, but despite his and his backers’ best efforts, the jinn was not so easily silenced, especially in regards to women in sports!
Ronald Reagan’s impact on athletic scholarships was primarily defined by his administration’s opposition to the broad application of Title IX, which briefly limited athletic scholarship expansion as the NCAA was still bound by Cold War-era bylaws. Of course, this was the era of glam metal and rock and roll, so the far right knew better than to say the quiet part out loud.
The 1984 Grove City v. Bell Supreme Court ruling, which the administration explicitly supported, interpreted Title IX to only apply to specific “female oriented” programs receiving federal funds rather than entire institutions. Programs like nursing and administration were, of course, heavily encouraged as Reagan’s fiscal policy was down the toilet and dual-income households were made the norm by default. This allowed the administration to feign support for women in higher ed while allowing athletic departments to skirt gender-equity scholarship requirements.
It didn’t land, of course, because women’s sports should and have always been inevitable, and following Reagan’s veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987, which Congress overrode to reinstate broad gender equity in athletic funding, officially reversed Grove City and reinstated institution-wide compliance, ensuring that if any part of a school received federal funds, the entire institution (including athletics) had to comply with gender-equity rules, which was huge.
So to backpedal and keep the heat off him and his cronies, Reagan was a vocal supporter of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, which boosted the profile of Olympic sports and athletic, non-collegiate scholarships. While the administration originally tried and failed to deregulate women’s collegiate sports into oblivion, the legislative override of his veto ultimately strengthened the legal mandate for equal athletic scholarships for women, leaving the Reagan admin and the Heritage Foundation to lick their wounds for another few decades, vowing to return and finish what they started.
Which brings us to the modern day.
In spite of the best efforts at the time to keep the progressive movement of the post-war era alive, the damage had already been done. The support infrastructure that made higher ed a viable asset of public good had been damaged beyond recognition. The cuts made to supporting infrastructure that made grants for STEM programs accessible in times of need are gone. The foundations that made our country the safe haven for the best and brightest decimated, and by the time the public realized how far things had fallen it was too late.
A generation of Americans have grown up in an era where college is seen as a personal investment for the privileged to enjoy and an economic necessity for the 99 percent of Americans who could never afford to enjoy it that way on their own footing alone. The few avenues still remaining for the overachievers who sacrifice their health and sanity in pursuit of a fading treasure chest, and the primarily Black, brown, and impoverished individuals with no other alternatives for the prospect of a better standing in life and no access to resources to make up for underfunded public schools, put everything they have into athletics and walk the path of the tributes.
Though I must admit there have been many attempts to rectify the damage caused by the Reagan era since, but it’s not hard to see many of the approaches have been rather lackluster. Now, if there is anything the post-Reagan era of far right conservatism is good at, it’s bastardizing terminology from the left and perverting it to suit the narrative they have been pushing from the start. Affirmative action being the most least recognized example, as the term was coined by President John F. Kennedy, who issued an Executive Order mandating that government contractors “take affirmative action” to ensure applicants and employees are treated with respect and dignity without regard to race, creed, color, or national origin.
But that definition was lost to time not much longer after Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, about 2 years after the term affirmative action entered the public consciousness, and has never been recovered since. What was originally meant to lay the groundwork for anti-discrimination policies across the board became a euphemism for “race quotas” in higher education and an attack on the “meritocracy” of higher education, to not only distract from the damage the right had done to accessing higher ed but to justify the lack of supply of funding and, of course, dismiss any allegations of misconduct or abuse both on and off campus.
When the Larry Nassar case came to the public eye, there was a near constant debate as to how such a depraved sexual predator was allowed to be in such close proximity to the young women of Team USA, but given the circumstances that led up to it it was hard to call the lack of accountability and laundry list of victims a “cover up.”
Team USA Gymnastics, particularly the men’s team, has a deep, foundational affiliation with the NCAA. All 2024 Olympic team members are current or former NCAA athletes, and that is no accident. In the wake of the slashing of federal oversight, the NCAA has become a powerful regulatory body in collegiate sports with direct pipelines to not just the Olympics but to the NFL, MLB, NBA and WNBA respectively, and with the organization serving as a critical, direct pipeline to the American sports industry as a whole, providing programs including training ground and qualifier for U.S. elite/national meets, different sports leagues and divisions utilizing identical rules and scoring systems, coaches, trainers, physical therapists, and of course medical staff.
Given how close the NCAA is with the major leagues on a corporate level, it’s not hard to imagine how many referrals, bump ups, and nepotism friend-of-a-friend hires crossed over from ESPN, the NFL, and others, especially given how sports teams themselves are considered personal assets for the elite to trade like Pokémon cards.
Anyone remember the Donald Sterling controversy of 2014? Or perhaps the fact that the Murdoch family owned 80% of ESPN stocks at one point before selling a good chunk of their assets to Disney, ESPN included.
With the recent release of the Epstein files, limited and redacted as they are, the thought of any amount of sexual abuse or misconduct in women’s sports is not unheard of nor impossible to rule out. There’s just one problem: Reagan’s gambit with the Heritage Foundation in the 80’s was a bit more sophisticated than first thought. Because of his background in the film industry, he knew that marketing the campaign’s effort to dismantle and disenfranchise the rights of millions of Americans would not go without contest, so each cut they made was dealt with a poisoned blade.
The damage was real and deliberate, but if they could flood the media with constant propaganda about connecting heroin to Black empowerment groups, abuse of the welfare system with community organization efforts, and reclassify them as “the cutthroat Italian mafia” or “being tough on organized crime,” they could deliberately and indefinitely decimate any back-of-house logistics the labor and civil rights movement had at their disposal.
If they visibly support women in sports and publicly funded “certain college programs,” they could appeal to American women as the image of protectors of the very hard-earned rights they are actively stripping away.
If they make queer people the sexual deviants and kiss up to “our new Asian allies overseas” after getting their butts whooped in both Vietnam and Korea, they could cultivate a model minority myth and turn racial demographics against each other while screwing us all over in the process, laying the ground for the NCAA to become unrivaled in industry dominance and a crucial piece of infrastructure for any young person who has any hope of going to college and not drown in debt in the process.
And worst of all, the system doesn’t even work as it was originally intended. The purpose of athletic scholarships was to improve college enrollment rates, but as of 2020, only about 1% to 2% of undergraduate students in bachelor’s degree programs were receiving athletic scholarships, and it’s no mystery why.
The NCAA has become a breeding ground for abusers like Larry Nassar not just because of Epstein, but because the student athlete pipeline has been decomposing for decades, providing a steady supply of “beautiful Black bodies” for predators like Donald Sterling and so many others to prey upon without restriction or penance. And these same monsters have groomed an entire generation to not only barrel down this pipeline in pursuit of glory that grows more rancid by the day, but will go so far as to not only defend the system that victimizes them and future students like them, but undo the few safeguards we tried to implement to stop the bleeding.
Affirmative action in that 2023 Supreme Court ruling, the plaintiff of which was a Chinese national on a student visa who has been oddly quiet since DHS took to the streets in 2025, combined that with calls for genocide against “the threat to humanity that is transgenderism,” as Matt Walsh would put it, and the world the Heritage Foundation has spent the last 50 years building is starting to come to fruition, and honestly…
I’m scared.
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law on July 26, 1990. I was born in 2000. Even now, that was not that long ago. President George H.W. Bush finally signed the bill following decades of advocacy and a pivotal 1990 “Capitol Crawl” protest, which was as jarring as it was straight to the point. The video can still be found to this day of physically disabled protesters crawling up the stairs of the Capitol building, demanding to speak with legislators to pass the ADA.
The most powerful quote from a young girl with a red sweatband dismounting her wheelchair with the determination one could only muster if their life depended on it:
“I’m getting up these steps if it takes me all night!”
And with that, the world’s first comprehensive civil rights law for people with disabilities was passed. With it, a series of legislative protections that prohibits discrimination in employment, public transportation, and accommodations. It’s this very documentation that allows people with disabilities to exist in public life without fear of persecution or denial. At least that’s how it should be, but unfortunately the world is never that simple. Laws are only as useful as there exists infrastructure in place to enforce them. The same goes with civil rights.
And while we could go on and on about the complexities of the human experiences and how queer people have always existed, let me draw this parallel to shed this perspective.
There has been a debate in recent years regarding tattoos and piercings being classified as a protected class. This argument has been rather murky in recent decades but has gotten exceptionally clearer with time as uniform enforcement can only be enforced within the parameters of the job. So of course, if you are covered head to toe in Nazi tattoos, you might have a hard time getting a job as a kindergarten teacher, but if your tattoo is either not visible enough to be seen through visible clothing and doesn’t interfere with the job requirements, then any issue brought up by the employer tends to put any preconceived biases into question.
Employers must apply appearance policies consistently. If a policy allowing certain, but not all, tattoos is enforced in a way that discriminates based on race or gender, it may be unlawful. The same goes for general appearances like hair color or even body type, and while these arguments have made their way through courtrooms for years, it makes me wonder:
If the argument against the existence of queer people is based in eugenics-fueled pseudo-science or religious fundamentalism, then why are we trying to counter-argue against those fronts?
From my perspective, body modifications like tattoos and piercings are socially acceptable within reasonable accommodations, so what makes HRT or gender-affirming care any different? Tattoos and piercings have to be performed by a licensed professional in a sterile, medically sound environment because there are always risks of complications. Allergies, infections, reactions, or any other side effect comes with making permanent body modifications, but we do them anyway because they make us feel confident in ourselves and secure in our own skin.
Think of how many women pierced their ears at the age of 16 as minors and came home to a lecture about “keeping your body pure for Jesus” or the “temple lecture” so many of us got growing up. It’s been 30 years and those hoops still look fabulous.
Think of all these men who get full-sleeve tattoos in their teens and twenties and keep them into middle age because they look kick ass and they make you feel kick ass the same way taking testosterone makes me feel fabulous and kick ass.
Regardless of the reason, trans is healthcare no different than tattoos or piercings, and therefore are not grounds for being excluded from public life, let alone a justifiable reason to call for a genocide, if there even is reason to call for such a thing!
Under the ADA and the 100 years of civil rights legislation we have established at our disposal, it is illegal for employers or college admins to use tattoo policies as a pretext to discriminate against someone based on protected characteristics like race, color, sex, or national origin.
That is the law.
It is landmark legislation like the ADA that protects us from harm. That’s why the Heritage Foundation and the conservative right have spent almost a century trying to undo it all. And for what? For the profits, for unrestricted access to sex with anyone they desire regardless of consent, to power for its own sake, and they’ve manipulated countless vulnerable groups into letting them do it.
“Men do not belong in women’s sports.”
It was a lie from the start because for the Epstein class there’s nowhere else they would rather be, and to think our rights are being stripped by those who proudly wear earrings, pants, tattoos, people who benefit from the very protection they seek to destroy, who enable the very predators they claim to fight against with every fiber of their being.
This is not a debate on whether trans people deserve to exist. That part is obvious because we already have, and we will continue to do so. This is a textbook example about the impacts of propaganda and how you manipulate an entire country to vote against their own best interests by selling them a conspiracy and allowing the truth to be forgotten.
There would be no need of the NCAA if college was made affordable to all, and the pressure and danger that come with sports in their current form completely misses the mark on what they were originally supposed to do. Theodore Roosevelt invented football to bring people together, the NCAA was originally founded to bring more people into college and encourage athleticism at the collegiate level, and now a bunch of fascists, rapists, genocidal monsters have used what was once meant to bring people together to tear us apart.
I won’t let them, and neither should you.
The concept of a university was invented in the ancient world to inspire knowledge and the pursuit of curiosity to the betterment of civilization. It is the birthplace of civil rights movements, reality-changing innovations, revolutionaries, heroes, and so many more.
We must never forget that the university is a sacred place in the story of human civilization. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise, or that “you don’t need college to be rich,” because we as a populace have seen first hand what happens to those who drink from that cup.
The jinn is getting antsy. Let’s get back to school and make some magic, shall we?
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