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I know I'm gonna catch heat for this, but sex-segregated physical competitions is one of the very few places where trans women shouldn't be treated the same. Women's sports competitions aren't segregated by gender, they're segregated by sex. Trans women are women in gender, but their body isn't a biologically female body. That's the exact definition of transgender - when your body's biological sex doesn't match your sense of gender. So by definition, trans women don't have a biologically female body.
The whole point of sex-segregated sports is for people with female bodies to be able to have a fair competition, instead of them not even getting a chance to compete at all because if they had to compete against biological males then almost 100% of females wouldn't even make the team. This is the whole reason why sports competitions are segregated by sex.
TLDR trans women should always be treated as women - except for sex-segregated physical competitions
The thing that really sucks is that tran women are gonna get absolutely dominated by cis men. HRT for long enough really does so so much to the body (hence why most sports allow trans people who have transitioned to compete). Tho trans men also would have insane advantage overs cis women if they competed together
Maybe there isn't any good solution. But what you are saying leads to a conclusion that there is no place in sports for trans people. Then again, these conversations always fall apart when we talk about cis people with abnormal hormone profiles.
End of the day, a lot of competitive sports come down to genetics. There isn't much room for someone with disadvantagious genetics to become the best in the world. For me, I don't see much difference in a trans woman who's transitioned being world class in swimming and a tall ass cis woman dominating in basketball. Especially when we don't see trans people sweeping in competitions as a wider trend
There is a place for trans people in sport. Male, female, trans. Done.
I really don't think there are enough trans people competing at the highest levels to sustain that though.
Honestly, I think it's not that big of a deal. I'm sure something can be worked out sure, but it's not the most important issue that trans people have to deal with.
That sounds like a more ideal compromise, though I am not sure if even that is without its own set of issues.
Basically, athletic performance falls on the same gradient as masculinity. The more masculine your body is, the more capable you are as an athlete on average. If you are a trans woman taking T blockers/estrogen supplements, your body becomes more feminine, but in turn you lose much of that athletic capability.
So hypothetically, if I am a trans woman and an athlete, where I am paid based on how well I do, am I incentivised to not take T blockers/estrogen supplements, or take them in more limited doses, in order to be a more capable athlete? Basically, am I forced to compromise my gender identity for a better paycheck?
We could force every trans athlete to undergo lab work before every match to make sure their T levels are within a certain threshold, but then is that someone's fault if their body is not being as responsive to the medication they're taking, and now they're out a job? Not to mention how that would basically force their medical history to be public knowledge.
I'm not sure I'm comfortable inviting these sorts of scenarios to occur, to be honest.
Trans people get the lab work you're talking about done regularly anyway, because it's part of ensuring their levels are safe and correct.
You're voting for exclusion (trans competitions will never happen) because you're uncomfortable with trans people having to do something that is already part of their daily lives
I think you may have misread what I was suggesting.
Trans people should never have to disclose part of their medical history to stay employed. Even if you get regular testing and it's no big deal, what goes into your medical record should be between you, your doctor, and no one else. There should never be a scenario of "Star kicker of [team] barred from competition because her labs showed she is too masc."
My point was not to suggest that as an option, but more that it would be a bad proposition to try to avoid the scenario where trans people would be incentivised to partially detransition (MtF) or take too many supplements (FtM) when athletic performance is directly correlated to how many androgens your body has.
I don't know how to avoid that scenario in a capitalist system, to be honest with you.
I'd rather submit my records to a sports oversight board than be excluded from competing.
You say "trans people shouldn't have to disclose their medical history to stay employed", but you're seemingly happy to speak for trans folk and just accept that they should be unemployed.
The real irony being that anyone in elite sports, trans or not, already has to submit to the lab work you're uncomfortable with, as a condition of their employment.
The scenario you're trying to avoid? That's why the lab work already happens, because many cis athletes take performance enhancing drugs to gain advantage, because they're incentivised to in a capitalist society.
But somehow, that lab work is only an issue that you feel the need to speak up on when it's for trans folk?
The problem is that fundamentally there are differences within the genders that favour one competitor over another.
Take Michael Phelps -- "Michael Phelps’s height, wingspan, and large hands and feet give him an advantage in swimming. His body also produces less lactic acid than his rivals, which shortens his recovery time." According to that he should have been disqualified from competing as his body was fundamentally different from his competitors.Yet he was glorified for his achievements even though he had an edge nobody else had.
Herein lies the biggest issue ... trans people are disqualified for the simple reason nobody in power wants to deal with them, so the anti-trans movement wins again.
Stop labeling people anti-trans just because they disagree with you about the mechanics of a zero-sum competition situation. The majority of people here are PRO-TRANS, and ALSO pro-women. We all just want the system that provides the most fairness in a situation where there's no way for it to be completely fair to everyone.
If there are 10 seats on a team, every spot taken by a person means that a different person doesn't get that spot. So we as a caring society have to decide who CAN get that seat, and also who CAN'T get that seat. It all comes down to whether or not women born with biologically male bodies have a physical advantage over women born with biologically female bodies. At the very minimum, people who went through male puberty have a physical advantage over people who didn't go through male puberty.
I think you make a valid point that someone could be trying to find fairness in a difficult situation without being anti-trans.
On the other hand, it's sports. Which is not driven by fairness, but by money. I don't give a shit either way, as far as I am concerned dope everyone up the gills and modify everyone into super humans, it is just silly sports. But I am not the person paying or advertising.
And that is all that matters. Will the advertisers put in money, and will people pay to watch. Currently, the society of those groups of people say no.
Of course they would, there are only so many to go around. They sell seats and products. That is how it works. You spend money to make a winning team, you appease the fans, you make money. OR you are really rich and want to brag about having a winning team. Money, Money, Money.
Who doesn't?
I am not disagreeing that it is difficult to figure out rules if you want to make it fair for everyone competing, but the reality is businesses are making money, and this is a diversion that does not make them money.
Can you define male puberty though? Like qualitatively in specific terms and with specific language?
Being pro trans is being pro women. Excluding some women from women's sports would be discriminatory to those women. In this case those women are transgender, and they are being excluded because they are transgender. Which would be opposed to their right to participate, a right we recognize for all other women and girls. That would be anti trans, in this specific context. It doesn't mean you oppose all of trans rights, but you're actively supporting the exclusion of trans people from professional athletics.
Where did the person you are replying to say that they couldn't compete in male professional athletics?
Preventing trans women from competing in women's sports is a ban on trans women in sports. Trans women do not have testosterone levels anywhere near cis male levels. And none of us are going to degrade ourselves by being categorized as men.
If you would make trans women compete against men then you're saying trans women aren't women. It's as simple as that.
Where do trans men compete?
You are saying it would be degrading to have a trans woman compete against men, but a trans man is not allowed to compete against anyone because they are taking a banned substance to transition. Which is more degrading?
True! Yes trans men should be allowed to compete in men's categories. I think they are strictly speaking so long as their T levels aren't abnormally high (same as all men).
Your comment history is rife with "biologically male/biologically female" bullshit.
Sit down.
I'm not sure what your complaint is with biologically male/female being bullshit. Do you think that a person who was born with male parts but a female mind/spirit/soul doesn't have testosterone levels and musculature different from a person who was born with female parts?
If you don't understand, far be it from to educate you.
Go read a book.
You want me to read a book about what you think? Where can I find such a book? It sounds suspiciously like you don't want to engage in a real conversation and just want to tell people who don't agree 100% with you that they are uneducated morons.
I'm serious, too. Do you disagree that people born with male parts have different levels of hormones and musculature and bone differences from people born with female parts? I'm wildly in favor of trans rights and understand that I will never understand what it's like for them, so I am always trying to learn new ways to look at different situations.
I can't believe OP actually said it:
dO yOUr OwN ResEArcH!
The most classic stereotypical retort of someone who doesn't know what they're talking about and is trying to deflect because they know they're unable to support their claim
I absolutely won't sit down. You don't have any authority to silence people, neither from a power perspective nor a moral perspective. You need to grow up and learn how to have a discussion with people you disagree with.
On a personal level and I've been very friendly and engaging in serious discussion with other people. And on the subject matter I've been very clear, on-topic, rational, understanding, and providing of citations for my claims. You should learn how to do it.