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If you're asking whether it would change my thoughts on a person competing in athletic events that are segregated in to men's and women's sports, that's far more complicated. I'm not sure how I would come down on that - I'm genuinely conflicted, and I think there's compelling arguments on both sides. I don't dismiss the claim that the separation of sports into men's and women's competitions is based on biological sex and not gender - the reason we have separate competitions is in recognition of the biological differences in anatomy that accompany biological sex, and not the social construct that is gender. - albaby
Thank you albaby. This is the issue I wanted to discuss before the thread went down the rabbit hole.
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On the other hand, since we're using "men" and "women" as the divider - and not actually a biological test - it's valid for trans women to argue that they are "women," and thus meet the qualifying standard of participating in that competition. - albaby
My suggestion was to treat testosterone level as just anther criteria like weight. Above a certain T level, you go into the men's division. After that, for both the men's and women's divisions, apply weight criteria to further stratify the athletes into classes where the individual athletes more or less have equal opportunities for success.
