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Well fuck me, I recently said that trans in women's sports was a complicated issue. This is straightforward anti-trans propaganda. I also looked at some peer reviewed studies that showed there is no physiological advantage for trans women.
We all make some assumptions based on anecdotal evidence, and the best we can do is learn from our mistakes.
thank you for interrupt my doomscroll to remind me that people out there are still empathetic and capable of learning/admitting to their faults.
If a person goes through testosterone puperty there are undeniable advantages over everybody that didn't, in sports where physical strengths matters. I'd really love to get my mind changed on that, could you please name the study and/or journal where it was published.
I think I know what you mean and it's true if you look at world class. But that's the reason why sometimes we use those properties to cluster people into groups to make it more fair. A lot of fighting sports are split into weight classes. We have paralympics, and we split many sports into male and female. Even in chess where almost everybody agrees that there is very likely no performance difference between man and women, but there are so many man playing chess that statistics alone tells you that most outliers (best and worst players) are also men.
But with "fairness" you have to draw the line somewhere or the groups that are able to play against each other would be too small. In the extreme it would mean that it's only fair if you compete against yourself, like in trying to break you own personal records.
Even paralympics aren't fair. It makes a difference to shoot with a bow if you are missing a leg, or an eye or an arm. Getting too specific will certainly make it fairer but would result in more groups and less people that would be allowed to compete against each other.
I'm personally not interested in watching any form of spots, so I couldn't care less about who's allowed to compete against whom, but I think it's only understandable if people that went through puperty without testosterone would complain if they would have to compete against more and more people who went through testosterone puperty.