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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In our league, the child can swim in their chosen (for lack of a better word) gender's events, but will be scored in their biological gender's events.  So your trans daughter could swim with the girls but will appear on the meet results as a boy.

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This is probably the fairest approach[/quote]

The fairest approach would be to have them swim in their own category for Trans girls.[/quote]

The heart of this debate is whether to prioritize validating gender identity or fairness in sports. Fairness is undoubtably the priority when people suggest an open category or a trans male to female category, but not a separate trans female to male category. No one is concerned about a trans male outclassing XY males, so no one argues that they shouldn’t compete with them. Then there is a practicality issue. There are probably not enough trans girls to compete against each other - is she supposed to swim by herself in every event?

If respecting gender identity was the priority, I think trans girls who transition after puberty should compete as girls. But if fairness in sport is the priority, then it should be an open category. Sports should state (and admit) that their categories of male and female are not gender identity categories, but whether development was testosterone influenced or not. That’s what people should care about if the priority is fairness - did this kid develop muscle strength, ability to gain muscle with resistance training, bone growth, etc with testosterone or not? Obviously there are many nuanced cases that are not black and white under this umbrella, so the answer is not that simple. [/quote]

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