Transgender track athlete makes history as controversy swirls around her

[alarimer]

72. I do too, for the same reasons you stated.

Although I am leery of treating any child with hormones just because they say they are transgendered. There would have to be some kind of evidence or assurance that this is, in fact, true and not a passing phase or whatever. I don't know that science or medicine is really very helpful right now on any of this.

Sports are a special case. Being male-to-female may give an advantage in some sports, but possibly not in others (maybe not so much in team sports, where it is a team effort, for instance). I don't think it is 100% certain that transgender women will win all the time in every sport, or even most of the time. And even then, I don't see a lot of male athletes transitioning for the sole purpose of competing against women. I think the number of transgender athletes will be very, very small.

But Title 9 is an issue. Women worked hard to even be allowed to compete and have only done so for a short time, really. Title 9 was a huge victory (but see the recent episode of the podcast Reveal for how some universities are gaming the system:

https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/womens-sports-a-mans-game/

In this one UCLA counts men on the practice basketball team (they practice against the women) as women for Title 9 accounting purposes. And there were other women counted, when they were not on any team and in fact had never even tried out.