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Originally Posted by Monahammer
In a balance of harms view, there is much more harm caused to many more people by allowing trans-folk to participate in the current sporting categories defined by gender: you would have to add the comparative harm of disadvantaging all other athletes within that category.
It's not an elegant solution, but society is about compromises. We need independent sporting categories for people who have made the decision to transition. It's not perfect, but balance of harm here is pretty clear IMO.
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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
This doesn’t mesh with reality, though. You can’t just declare where the balance of harm lies without actually backing it up. There’s obviously room to find out where the balance is, but you haven’t found it here.
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Except it is mathematically the case that it does. You are talking about accommodating ~0.33% of the population (per StatsCan for both trans and non-binary -- trans alone is ~0.19%) at the expense of effectively
the rest of said population. And in reality, it's likely even less than that, as there's a reason no one really raises the issue about FtM trans competitors in male sports being unfair to CIS men.