This petition: https://www.change.org/p/international-olympic-committee-suspend-the-international-olympic-committee-s-transgender-policy is demanding the official Olympics committee ban certain women from the Olympics, even if they're cis women with high levels of testosterone.

Tens of thousands of people have signed it without acknowledging the disastrous consequences it could have to women's rights and to the shape of humanity as a whole.

Despite what the original author of the petition thinks and what the mainstream media thinks, trans women are just as good at sports as cis women, and the same goes for trans men. Not defending gender-based rights is indefensible and downright sexist.

Being transgender is harder than most transphobes think. It's not as easy as just putting on a wig and makeup, or shaving your head and a putting on a fake beard and calling yourself another gender. It's a process of pain and self-reflection that takes years of acceptance of the body and self. Also, feminizing or masculinizing hormones exist.

Transphobia will not win, and haters have to hush. The future is now, and it is a time when people stand up for their right to compete and be who they are.