misandryspice:bookishboi:beggarbelief:bookishboi:Fallon Fox is the world’s first trans MMA fighter.
misandryspice:bookishboi:beggarbelief:bookishboi:Fallon Fox is the world’s first trans MMA fighter. Deal with it.[Read Her Story Here.]Probably going to annoy people but … It’s good that trans people are allowed to be MMA fighters but if we must “deal with it” and by the tone it is obviously not a big deal (which it isn’t) why are they pointing out Fallon is a trans fighter? She should just be a fighter. I wouldn’t have known she was trans if not for people publicizing it.Because 1 in 12 transgender people will be murdered.Because 70% of those murders will be perpetrated against people of color.Because 50% of transgender people will be victims of violence.Because 25% of transgender people are victims of physical/sexual assault.Because 49% of transgender people will attempt suicide at some point in their life.Because 18% of all homeless youth are transgender.Because 15% of all transgender people live in extreme poverty.Because 16% are forced to work in an underground economy to survive.Because despite all of these statistics, transgender people account for less than 5% of the population.Because seeing people like her give us hope.And sometimes, that shit fucking matters.Also it’s important to keep in mind that trans* women have a ridiculous amount of pressure on them to “pass” (not that this is a priority for all trans* ladies or trans* folks in general) which often means sticking to traditional gender roles despite maybe not always wanting to do so in an attempt to have their gender identity be recognised and validated, so Fox’s MMA training and practice is not only subverting gender roles and expectations but a lot of shit that comes with the roles that trans* women are expected to preform and that’s incredibly significant and should not be ignored or erased for the sake of cis convenience.Basically: this is a huge middle finger to trans*misogyny and it needs to be recognised and celebrated. -- source link
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