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Originally Posted by Matata
I know it's easy to dismiss the issue and say "just let them play", but it's clear at this point that it is extremely irresponsible and dangerous, in the cases of contact sport, to allow biological men to compete with women. So how does the sanctity of women's sport be maintained? Women's sport only exists so that women can compete without having to overcome the massive biological advantage of being a man. Even at the current pace of there only being a slow intake of biological men entering women's sport, it's enough that in 10-20 years time, the majority of women sporting records could conceivably be held by biological men.
I get what they've proposed is gross and seemingly a step too far, but it also sounds like the vast majority of female athletes wouldn't be subject to this test. It's usually pretty obvious when a recently transitioned individual is competing with the girls. Is the sanctity of women's sport so inconsequential that obvious cases of biological men competing cannot be rooted out? Can you suggest a better method of protecting women's sport?
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This is big tent politics. Either you are protecting women's sports or protecting the right of transgendered to be women. Who gets to decide? And why is the government involved in high school sports other than to pass their own agenda? Remember we're talking about inspecting the genitals of minors.
This debate happens in beauty pagaents too and that's not even athletically competitive.