06-18-2018, 01:46 PM
(06-18-2018, 01:39 PM)fredtoast Wrote: No. That is a different issue.
There is no 100% "fair" way to address transgender competition in sports. A transgender man will never have the same natural ability as other elite male athletes, but if he is not on testosterone I don't think anyone would try and bar him from competing against women. Women will never have the same natural ability as an elite transgender woman, and there is nothing they can do about it. So they should just compete against each other.
You are correct that there is no 100% fair way to do it, but that's because this is all subjective. How can we say that it is because of testosterone giving a competitive edge to a trans woman that they cannot compete against other women, yet ignore things like hyperandrogenism? By trying to allow some things and disallow others in competition like this we are trying to achieve a fairness that can never be achieved and overcomplicating it. The simplest solution is adopting the rules of the NCAA, like Pat has advocated for. It may not seem "fair" to some people, but in truth there is no fairness existent in the system, anyway, because of the large number of conditions that provide a competitive edge that we overlook.
The percentage of trans athletes is not going to be any higher than people with these biological conditions, so we should just treat them the same way and move on with life.
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