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1. When it comes to fairness in sports, nothing reveals the confusion the trans rights activists have sowed more than the constant, false refrain that testosterone is what matters, and if you lower a boy's or man's testosterone enough "she" will now compete...
2... equally with natal women or girls. The scientific reality is that testosterone suppression does not change the male body enough to make much of a difference in athletics. Muscle mass, lung capacity, and dozens of other advantages remain.
When you start to...
When you start to...
3... explain this, some kind women ask, why not eliminate gendered sports? Why not create ten or twenty skill levels and let people regardless of anatomy compete in whatever class they qualify?
The problem is that doing that would completely eradicate...
The problem is that doing that would completely eradicate...
4... women's sports. Consider that 2 different elite women's soccer teams, the US and Australian teams, were both beaten by teams of high-school aged boys (in at least one case the boys were 15 and under). Or consider that two elite female runners...
5...had their record-shattering times beaten more than fifteen thousand times each, in a single year, by times posted by men and boys. Source: https://web.law.duke.edu/sports/sex-sport/comparative-athletic-performance/
6. There are areas in life where sex differences and gender identity don't really matter, but sports is one area where they do and always will. Even if natal females could increase their testosterone to the exact same level as that allowed for male-to-female trans....
7...athletes (spoiler: they aren't) it would not level the playing field, as female athletes would continue to lack the other natural advantages a person in a male body has. The only way to keep sports fair is to permit only people with female bodies to compete as females. But..
...saying this out loud gets you labeled transphobic, a TERF, and--my favorite--a "science denier".
