Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
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5/6/25  8:24 pm
Commenter: Peggy Milota

Some of us have actually played sports with trans women for a decade already…
 

… and have never had a single issue with trans women “pretending” in order to get access to the space, “dominating” or “harming” skaters on the track or felt we were in any kind of danger. In a sport that relies heavily on full body contact to play! The cherry picking of cis men harming women by “pretending” to be trans does real harm to trans women and is contrary to a decade-plus of experience that roller derby skaters have. Every single one of us have horror stories of abuse and mistreatment by cis men. Quit scapegoating trans women and do us a favor and go after the actual culprits!

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