When someone transitions to their believed gender does not mean that the body itself, physiologically, transforms as well. The DNA structure of the body doesn’t change with the mindset and surgeries. Therefore, males/former males have an unfair advantage: bigger long capacity, quicker recovery, bigger muscles, more strength. Don’t get me wrong: I am totally ok with trans-people, everyone deserves to be happy in their own body and no one should have any say over that. But saying trans people can’t compete in sports against the sex they transitioned to often is regarded as being transphobic; same goes for: a transwoman will never get her period or get pregnant. That is not transphobia. That’s just science and no wishing upon a star is gonna change that (unfortunately so).

How do people ignore biology so blatantly. There is obviously a difference between men and women. Trans women do have an advantage. Men have a bigger skeleton and bigger organs like heart and lungs, their lung capacity is greater and stuff like that doesn't change even after transitioning and those things have an obvious advantage in sports. Their muscle mass and testosterone levels does decrease post transition but it is nowhere near the level of cis women and ignoring those facts is good for nobody. I am not saying trans people shouldn't play sports but they need their own category. To those arguing that trans people don't have an advantage please care to explain why we never seen trans men dominating men's sports.

To those of you shouting about transphobia and claiming that males have no advantage in sports, consider this: if there really are no advantages to men in sports, why are trans men not racking up wins in male sports the way that trans women are doing in female sports? I'm sure that it isn't because, by some weird coincidence, male-identifying trans people just happen to have no interest in sport, so what would you say is holding them back?

From the short-fat-ashma girl I was in PE class : You don't have to be trans to have an advantage or disadvantage in sport. We're all different.

From OP: "In the lawsuit, Slusser claimed to be concerned for her safety, especially since she was unaware of Fleming’s biological sex when they shared rooms on team trips." Two points about this: First, the wording is misleading. In the source material Slusser's safety concerns centre on the way Fleming acts on the court, "smashing volleyballs into the faces and bodies of young women", not only against opposing sides but also in practice sessions with his own teammates. Second, it's creepy at best and potentially extremely dangerous at worst that a young woman was roomed with Fleming without being informed that he is a male. Essentially she was sleeping, showering, etc. in the same space as a man without her knowledge or consent. When a woman has to room with somebody else she has the right to know the sex of the person she's being paired-up with.

Unless a person has had "bottom surgery" they are still the gender they were born.

Two things are for certain: 1. The "trans women are women and should be able to compete in womens' sports" crowd will continue with this nonsense until a biologically-born woman gets a life-altering injury or is killed. And even then they'll probably keep going. 2. BP is a terrible place to debate, as the notifications that someone responded to you are terrible, and people get muted when ~4 people disagree with them. Who TF designed this site, anyway?

remember when everyone called Imane Khelif trans/a man, just because she happened to be stronger than her opponent? this whole "bio men have an advantage" is complete c**p and just a blatant excuse for transphobia.

This is where everyone, as it were, picks a rose and displays their colours. I think it's becoming clearer that, where men and women are separated, the burden of proof now falls on the trans community to prove that those born as biological males do not have an unfair advantage or pose a threat to the safety of biological women. It's difficult to see how, in sports where size and strength are clearly an advantage, this is going to be the case.

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To all the hate filled transphobes that our downvoting people- get a damned life. This site is such a mean-spirited place anymore. I’m done

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How many of y'all are aware of the history of women in the Olympics? See, women did not used to be allowed to compete. Then, when they were allowed to compete in -some- sports, they competed along side of the men. And they consistently outperformed the men. Which led the Olympics to ban women from competing against men. Which is why the competitions are divided by gender. So, don't give me this garbage that transwomen have an unfair advantage over women assigned-female-at-birth. That is transphobic propaganda.

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Fkcu off with that anti-Trans phrase "biologically male". She's a woman, that's all you should be saying to describe her.