Do Transgender Athletes Have a Place in Sports?

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Do trans athletes have a place in sports? Read perspectives from an academic and a former athlete, courtesy of dividedwefall42:

Now the women’s sports community is facing a situation where a group of people who were born male but identify as women want to compete in women’s sports. They call themselves women, ask to be referred to as women, and often dress like stereotypical women. But they still have male bodies. As everyone knows, male bodies are different from female bodies. Due to an infusion of testosterone at puberty, men become, on average, taller, stronger, faster, and heavier than women.

We have female and male sports categories to ensure fair and safe competitions. Women’s events feature lower hurdles and volleyball nets, smaller basketballs, and golf tees closer to the hole. These accommodations address women’s shorter stature and relatively lesser strength.Champion female athletes are speaking out.

In sports, fairness means competing against people who share one’s biological sex, age group, ability level, weight class, and/or other relevant physical characteristics. Inclusion means finding alternatives to accommodate everyone who wants to play. As a society, we have devised creative ways to include all sorts of people without disadvantaging others. Surely, we can do the same for and with transgender athletes.

I read Martina Navratilova’s 2019 opinion article, “The rules on trans athletes reward cheats and punish the innocent.” I recall feeling euphoric when she defected to America in 1975 at 18. She lost her match in Forest Hills, New York, but, as a Tennis.com article noted, she “won a new life…the future was hers.” She competed as an American, and her success in tennis is laudable. Navratilova not only competed with women but with men as well in mixed doubles.

 

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dividedwefall42 Trans people do not belong in Womens sports. Trans men naturally produced an unfair amount of testosterone and Trans women actively take an unfair amount of testosterone. This is why Trans people in Womens sports ALWAYS win, there is nothing fair about that.

dividedwefall42 'I am convinced that transgender women and girls are, in fact, women and girls.' Scientifically and logically impossible. You may believe what you will, but this take is not rooted in reality.

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