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The IFPA has banned a trans woman from the women's tournament at the IFPA's PAPA23 Pinball World Championship. Here is her firsthand account. This happened as a followup to OBX Fall Flippers, the event that was a pinball tournament for cis people and a hate crime for trans people. The woman that the IFPA just banned is one who protested the IFPA over this, five months ago. My previous posts on the topic: Trans Exclusion at OBX (my original account of the debacle) Six Months After OBX (about the IFPA's terrible followup) Unfortunately Frequently Asked Questions about Transphobic Pinball Events You can also read the NBC News article by Jo Yurcaba that resulted from these events. I'm calling this "the sequel to OBX" not because the same thing is happening - there hasn't been any hint of bathroom exclusion or the cops being invoked - but because it follows on from the events of OBX, it's bringing up similar themes, and some of the same characters are involved. Like a sequel. We need to…

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