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A cisgender sportswoman who takes part in competitive powerlifting is using her TikTok to reveal the constant attacks she faces from anti-trans trolls on her gender identity 🏋️🏳️‍⚧️
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TikTok user burritos_and_adhd, whose real name is Laura, is constantly criticised by trolls who have accused her of being a man. One user recently asked her: “Are you really proud of cheating the system?” (2/6)

She hit back in a video with the caption: “This idea that trans women are ‘cheating’ is based on the belief that people born as men are automatically stronger 100 per cent of the time. Y’all aren’t. Sit down.” (3/6)

In text over the video, Laura wrote: “No, but I am proud of hurting your feelings by just existing. Once ya’ll realise that men aren’t magically stronger from birth, you’ll stop accusing women of cheating when they’re strong.” (4/6)

In January, a report found that trans women have no advantage over cisgender women when competing in elite sport, if existing rules are followed. It concluded that trans women who have begun testosterone suppression have no clear biological advantage. (5/6)

Responding to the “transphobia” she receives from people who misgender her and try to “affirm” her gender, Laura said that there isn’t a strict binary that bodies fall into.
Read more on our website: (6/6) thepinknews.com/2023/07/27/tik…