"The women's category is now meaningless." Ah yes. The women's category of Jeopardy winners. That category that absolutely exists and was not made up in a fit of pique by the person who wrote the tweet.
https://twitter.com/purplechrain/status/1476415780141076484
The thing about this complaint is that it ISN'T that anything of substance has been taken from anyone, or even that an official ledger has been altered. It's literally just that people—media entities, folks, the previous female record holder—are calling a trans woman a woman.
I always get a lot of "what do we do about rapists in prisons?" stuff from TERFs when I weigh in on anything related to trans acceptance, and I think it's telling that it happens whether I've mentioned formal government policy or not. (Near-invariably, I have not.)
The (claimed) existence of obscure, marginal difficult questions does not magically make other straightforward questions difficult.
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