We do! We desperately need a separate category for transgender folx! As well as one for Non-Binary folx! This is hard. I relate to this bc in the grand scheme of things we all just want to be accepted and thought of as who we are. However, in the process we do also have to account for people’s physical attributes that they were birthed with. I do not think it is fair to have transgender women compete with cisgender women, because they do have biological advantages. But they just want to be seen as women, because that is what they are. So the only real way to do this is to create a separate category of sports for Non-Cisgender people. It’s just really difficult to, because then it alienates people from their gender identity as a woman or a man. So I apologize if this comment offended you, I don’t me to be if I am. (I’m sorry)

I mean, just for transgender women really. Nobody cares if the trans men want to compete in the men's category.

And a third set of changing rooms. It won't need to be as big as the other two but will solve a lot of angst.

I'm confused. Are the transgendered athletes fully transtiotioned, do they have any qualifications for that or is it just if they identify as a woman?

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No. What we need is to stop separating sports by gender. Not men and women bicycling just bicycling. Not men and women's golf tournaments. Just golf tournaments. Soccer, volleyball, gymnastics, and yes, even boxing. Equality - the state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities.

Anyone who thinks it is fair for transgender women to compete in female events should ask themselves why we're not having the same debate about transgender men competing in male events

Honestly, I think at this point basically everyone who isn't an evangelical nitwit is fine with people living their best lives. I mean really, who cares? And yet, the trans activism community has already seen many of their gains walked back, in such a short time. Why do they think that is? My answer is simple: because they've attempted to bully even those who broadly support their rights and freedoms into saying things that we simply don't believe, or endorsing things that are clearly unfair. Also, we've finally all become inured to today's favored political cudgel, which is to attach your policy agenda to some sort of minority activism, and then accuse anybody who disagrees with your policy agenda as being hate-filled toward or "phobic" of that minority group. Yes, it's possible to oppose trans women in womens' sports without opposing trans rights, much less being filled with hate or phobia of trans folks. Anyone who claims otherwise is simply trying to cow their opponents and win the argument by default.

Thank you for you well-considered comment! I agree 100% with everything you say.

The whole point of transgender athletes is to get an easy win because they can't against their equals. This, sadly, will never be implemented.

This! Thank you

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So, this is only true if they went through puberty without hormonal therapy. Basically we are all male and female at the same time "genetically" (I mean literally, there are such things as men with XX chromosomes: check XX men syndromes), but men have an activation gene on the Y chromosome. Hormonal therapy can shut the process of male puberty and trick the body to go through female puberty instead by injecting oestrogens regularly. If somebody starts young enough, their body will develop a silhouette of a woman (shorter, less muscle mass, different fat repartition on the body). And the other way around (which is why transgender men can develop a beard). So, the problem in sport is post-puberty transitionner. They do have an unfair advantage (trans men) or disadvantage (trans women).