This competition opposes the words and actions that promote discrimination and prejudice against transgender women, which are seen on social media these days.

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Many transgender people experience difficulties throughout their lives or at one point in their lives due to gender issues, are often excluded from medical and welfare education, and in serious cases, take their own lives.

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Some of the behaviors seen on SNS (especially Twitter) these days are as follows.

“Transgenders are the perpetrators and we are the victims.”
"When a trans person comes into a women's space, it's indistinguishable from a molester."

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In other words, hate speech is happening. Some people who don't usually come into contact with this kind of behavior may be surprised or angry.

Also, I think that some of those who have seen and heard these behaviors have thought about how to respond.
Some people may think that there is no end to the counter.

Our Executive Committee has also been thinking about various countermeasures the other day. Of course, as a premise, it is definitely NO to such behavior.

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Therefore, I would like to ask all the participants.

We will operate with strict adherence to the ground rules so that this tournament is a safe place for everyone, including trans women. In the ground rules, all discrimination and harassment are NO, and if you see or hear it, we ask you to call the staff, intervene, or stop it.

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We will cooperate with you across fields and positions to create a society in which sexual minorities can use the social resources of medical welfare education as a matter of course and survive in the same way as other people. I want to go