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Calling women athletes “non-competitive” tells us what you think of women athletes.
There are competitive sports where gender literally doesn’t matter (like darts.) There are sports that require subdivisions within them to allow equally skilled athletes of different physiological builds to compete (boxing.)
The thing is, sports regulatory bodies were already making the decisions of how trans and intersex athletes can compete. To say that trans athletes should be kept out of all competitive female sports shows that you either have it in for trans people or you just don’t understand sports.
And no one yet has given a coherent argument for why the government should be involved.
You and I both know that women are not competitive with men in most sports. You pretending that they are (or could be) is just a bad faith argument.
The darts argument is also in bad faith, there's no restriction in the primary darts tournament series based on gender at all, and they do not have a separate women's category for the normal tournaments. There are a handful of women's only events, but they are not part of the main tours in which anyone can compete.
Find me an example of a professional female boxer beating a professional male boxer within the same weight class. I'll wait. Here's arguably one of the best female boxers, with a 54-0 record and multiple world titles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucia_Rijker, She got KOed in the second round by an amateur kickboxer, who was male and 10 pounds lighter than her (1-2 weight classes down depending on the ruleset). He wasn't as good on technique, but just cleaned her out with more speed and power anyways.
The whole point of having a women's category is to allow fair competition. Allowing trans women to compete breaks that fairness principle. Just like any sort of doping breaks that fairness principle. If something is possibly unfair, then it's unfair. Even if most people don't gain an advantage, it's still unfair. Unfairness cannot be allowed in competition, it ruins the whole thing.
You're right that the government shouldn't be involved, but they were getting banned by sports bodies left right and center for competing unfairly, so it's the same outcome. The government should still back off and lets sports bodies do it, but it won't change the inevitable outcome.