Girls sue to block participation of transgender athletes

[jberryhill]

171. Okay well that's a different story

If you want to eliminate “separate but equal” the entire problem arises from defining a category of “women’s competition” and trying to nearly fit people into that category with an objective rule.

Attempts to neatly divide persons into binary gender classifications will never succeed on some absolute basis.

However, for purposes of athletic competition, testosterone is a performance enhancing substance in many sports. That advantage could be eliminated by, for example, coming up with different sports in which that is not so. But in the sports we generally recognize, it is an undeniable fact that if you do not draw a line on hormone levels, then persons with highly elevated testosterone will win.

Get rid of “separate but equal” women’s sports, just have sports, and be done, is an entirely different conversation. There will be some remaining sports in which cis women will dominate, which is why in gymnastics, for example, men and women don’t do the same things.

But if your objection is to “separate but equal” you could have saved a lot of time in this thread by simply saying your opinion is to eliminate women’s sports.