Trans women should be allowed to participate. The thing is that her results are reflective of most trans women, they perform on par with cisgender feminine athletes. This entire “trans women in sports” debate is just transphobia masquerading as fairness. It essentially boils down to “trans women can only participate if they lose”.
I’d be fine with banning trans participants from professional-level compensation if we also banned anyone who ever took a PED ever. It’s the same argument. If trans people get lifetime bans, then so should PED users. Of course the second will never happen, so…
Can we turn the magnifying glass to trans women who do seem to have an unfair advantage? Something resembling the use of performance enhancing drugs? I’ll wait until you find one.
The Olympics have this solved. Trans women have been allowed to compete for the last 20 years as long as they’ve been on HRT for at least 2 years and have hormone levels in the expected range. The results plainly show there’s no advantage, and possibly even a disadvantage. The only trans person to win a medal was an AFAB nonbinary soccer player who wasn’t taking hormones, and the only trans woman to compete in an event came in dead last. No other trans athletes made it past qualifiers.
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Trans women should be allowed to participate. The thing is that her results are reflective of most trans women, they perform on par with cisgender feminine athletes. This entire “trans women in sports” debate is just transphobia masquerading as fairness. It essentially boils down to “trans women can only participate if they lose”.
I’d be fine with banning trans participants from professional-level compensation if we also banned anyone who ever took a PED ever. It’s the same argument. If trans people get lifetime bans, then so should PED users. Of course the second will never happen, so…
Can we turn the magnifying glass to trans women who do seem to have an unfair advantage? Something resembling the use of performance enhancing drugs? I’ll wait until you find one.
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The Olympics have this solved. Trans women have been allowed to compete for the last 20 years as long as they’ve been on HRT for at least 2 years and have hormone levels in the expected range. The results plainly show there’s no advantage, and possibly even a disadvantage. The only trans person to win a medal was an AFAB nonbinary soccer player who wasn’t taking hormones, and the only trans woman to compete in an event came in dead last. No other trans athletes made it past qualifiers.