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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can we please go back to  the topic?  The lack of response makes me think a lot of people don’t have enough understanding about this.[/quote]

Because trans women are women, they should play women’s sports.  Basic human rights here.  Not much to debate.  Sorry not sorry.[/quote]

How do you know they are women?[/quote]
That’s the big question. Did Caitlin Jenner only become a transgender woman once other people knew she was one? Or was she a transgender woman even back when she won a gold medal at the Olympics in the decathlon under the name Bruce Jenner? Back then, when she had all of the physical advantages of having the male physiology, would it have been a-okay for her to complete against women? Where do we draw the line?[/quote]

The existential questions of her identity then aside, high level athletic competitions like Olympics have rules about hormone levels, so the answer is no.

For high school sports, I think it's worth asking what the purpose of the competition is, and whether that changes how we feel about trans athletes. I think the answer there is that [b]high school sports should not be centered around strict competition like that Olympics and should err on the side of encouraging participation without those kinds of requirements.[/b][/quote]
High school teams that cut people are focused more on being competitive than on encouraging participation. If someone is biologically male, then you’re not excluding them from participating in sports by having them compete against other biological males. They don’t have to be on the women’s teams to participate. Putting them on the women’s team is about recognizing their gender, but we don’t organize sports by gender. We organize them by the two most dominant biological sexes.[/quote]

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