Ross Tucker has some very good articles on the science behind this topic
Essentially men have major advantages over women in sports and mixing the two is dangerous in contact sports and unfair in most other sports.
If they have gone through puberty, those advantages are mostly retained if they transition and have their testosterone suppressed. The limit for allow Laurel Hubbard to compete was still 5 times that of a normal female athlete.
You don't get athletes complaining about not being allowed into the paralympics because it's clear why there is segregation. Equally, anyone who understands the science knows why sex segregation is important; without it there would be no women's sports, only trans women's sports.
Of course now that Laurel Hubbard is allowed to compete in the women's weightlifting, how long do you reckon it will be before the Russian team consists of trans women? If that's what it takes to win, they will do it.
My real problem with it all though is why are women's voices always dismissed when they say it's not fair? It strikes me that it is always men making decisions on behalf of the little ladies...
(, Thu 1 Jul 2021, 16:56, Reply)