Because variations in weight and strength occur *within* sexes.
Nobody (save a few loonies in Slackjaw, Alabama) is saying that trans people can't compete. The claim is that sports are segregated by sex, and that that is immutable.
Of course, within each sex-class, there is variation. But the difference between sex-classes is *staggering*. There are thousands of men who would beat the world's fastest woman in a sprint; and the same pattern is repeated elsewhere. In other words, even if you segregate by weight, you'd still have abolished female sport.
No amount of learned technique can make the difference to that.
Sure, there're some sports where sex doesn't make a difference. High-diving doesn't seem to me to favour one sex over the other, for example. So maybe if we were to go through every sport case-by-case, you could make a few unisex.
That's not anti-trans, and it's baffling how keeping male people from competing in female sport categories is misogynistic. By parity of reasoning, if there were a sport in which being female lent a natural advantage - there is some suggestion that some ultra-endurance events might fit in here, but it's not certain by any means - then there would be cause to maintain sex-segregation in order to maintain fairness to male competitors.
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