If I, who am biologically and self affirmatively female, take hormones to improve my performance, I would be banned for cheating even if I kept the range inside the very top of what considered within range for women.

Maybe it’s about fair competition for college scholarships for female athletes?

I said this in a previous post: Harper’s article is neither scientific nor medical. That’s why she published it in a cultural journal rather than a scientific or medical one. She didn’t take pre- and post-measurements of individuals under controlled conditions. She took one historical race time of 8 transitioned…

I admire your tenacity. I live for the day someone will post, "well crap. You are a scientist and I'm not. I'll keep being skeptical, but for now, I'll accept your position". Think that will ever happen?

The whole public push for trans inclusion in sport is very, very, very new. Like literally just in the last few years. As of yet, very few sports let trans women compete vs. girls. I am saying that if it becomes mainstream, yes, trans women competing in girls’ and women’s sports will be the death of those sports. Why…

“Being biologically male is not what grants men an edge in sport. It’s testosterone.” This is a largely untested theory without much scientific support. What limited science has been published indicates the opposite: Men have inherent biological advantages over women.

Testosterone is a big part of it, but biologically born men also have larger hearts, greater lung capacity, stronger bones, and more upper body strength than biologically born women. It’s more complicated than just testosterone suppression and I’m not sure what the answer is (at least for ensuring equity in professiona…

“So you can put to bed this idea that there’s an enormous trend of trans girls who have undergone zero medical intervention but are allowed to dominate girls’ sports simply on the strength of their IDing as girls. That’s basically not happening.”

“Of course, all this is solely in respect to pro athletic contests. Amateurs and youth athletics are about participation, not prowess.”

It’s a common tactic around here. If you don’t have a good argument, ask someone for their sources so you can nitpick the publication rather than try to make a contrasting argument.

Hasn’t been replicated? The study was published in December 2019. Last month. How quickly do you think it can be replicated?

Ummmm....I’m a peer-reviewed, published academic. I also regularly do blind peer-reviews for two academic journals in my field. I’m sure I have a better conception of peer-review than you, but thanks for assuming.

A single study can’t of course be 100% conclusive, but it is a more well-constructed scientific study than the few supporting trans inclusion in women’s sports. Most of those are just guesswork about the impact on athletes that transitioned many years or even decades ago. This one was based on detailed measurements of…

The motivation for cons on this one is clearly bigotry (plus hypocrisy), yes. But many women (who by no stretch of the imagination are republicans) raise the same concerns. I don’t know if there’s a name for the fallacy that goes like “some people are motivated to raise concern X for reason Y, and reason Y is a bad…

So if gender is entirely a social construct, then should we just have men and women compete at all sports in the same division? Whatever happened to giving women a chance to succeed? There’s a good reason they’re separated. Peoples’ bodies develop differently.

Gee if only I had already given my sources in another comment in this chain... You guys are so lazy

“she didn’t cite her sources therefore she must be lying!”
Yknow google is very easy to use.

What would be a fair proposal? It is not fair to a women’s basketball team thatgoes up against another team with a biological male.

Trans women are destroying every sports record set by women around the world. It’s a problem.

That being said, I’d be all for us setting up leagues for trans students to play, but there may not be enough population for them in some areas? I’m not sure what a good solution would be. 

“Trans youth need compassion, not bills attempting to violently erase them as human beings.”