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Originally Posted by Drolefille
Those issues are debated within sports organizations. And studies have shown that transgender women can compete on women's teams with as little as a year of hormone replacement therapy and lose all advantage from the testosterone in their systems. And that's purely from the perspective of counteracting biological advantages.
However, assuming that there are mythical people who want to live as the other gender in order to play sports is pretty offensive. It's a bit like saying that someone might just be pretending to be gay so they can have more sex. Or pretend to be black just to get a scholarship. Might one asshole do this? Maybe. Is it actually a reasonable concern? No. And it isn't a rational argument against prohibiting transgendered individuals from participating with their identified gender.
Transgender women are women. Transgender men are men. Title IX status should not be affected by it and as Kye Allums has just started playing Division I basketball, I think that it's not a concern at all. |
That's not what I was talking about at all. I am talking about legal measures of what constitutes transgender identification. Is just saying it's so make it so? Yes, I think it would be really effed up to pretend to be transgendered, but I also know there are a lot of people in this world who are willing to do really awful things when there's a motive like money involved.
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