Being a *male* is an advantage over female people
Your argument “you still have to be good” misses the point.
The issue with trans women in female sport isn’t “trans women will win all the gold medals”, much as that’s a convenient little strawman with which to pretend that the opposition view has no merit.
The point is twofold.
Firstly - and the point most obvious but least relevant; almost every elite male athlete would immediately become the world’s best if measures against female achievement, and would still retain most of that advantage after hormone treatment. These are your “gold medal” trans women, but the most unlikely to actually happen
Secondly, and most importantly; an *average to good* male athlete if they transition, still retains the same percentage of male advantage as elite athletes do.
In practice, as with Laurel Hubbard, this results in - whatever the placing, whether second or 10th or 100th - a mediocre male athlete supplanting an exceptional female.
That’s evidence based and obvious yo everyone - I daresay that five years ago nobody here would’ve thought such a statement was controversial.
I’m amazed that so few people see the most glaring moral/ethical issue though; all sport should be about striving to be the best we can be. Where is the integrity in sport if 98% of competitors are striving to improve, be the best they can, the strongest, the fittest, the fastest, while a small group of people of the sex with an advantage are attempting to *mitigate* their advantage just enough to make it all look fair?
(, Tue 29 Jun 2021, 9:46, Reply)