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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]And while these physiological differences don't matter in the vast majority of situations, they do matter in athletics, especially given the history of women's sports and the efforts we've had to go to as a society to ensure women have access to athletic opportunities.
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I only somewhat agree.  They matter in athletics in some contexts.  I don't think it generally makes sense to have people born male competing with people born female after the individuals have gone through puberty when the level of competition is serious.  I think it is fine at younger ages at the rec/just for fun level.[/quote]

I used to feel this way but then a friend pointed out that this just emphasizes the difference as kids go through puberty and a child must move from the girls division to the boys division.

I think we should normalize two things for rec sports, one of which is already present in summer swim:

1) Co-ed practices and teams, and Co-ed competition when it doesn't unfairly disadvantage girls

2) When competition is sex segregated, trans girls should compete in the boys division

I think this will help accomplish the goal of inclusivity while also normalizing the idea that in direct, head-to-head competition, trans girls/women need to be in the boys category for fairness (not as punishment or to ostracize anyone).

Summer swim is already ideally set up for this. The meet in question here even had mixed heat with boys and girls swimming at the same time, and the categorization by sex was just for times. So this would be a really easy situation to categorize a trans girl with the boys for times without in any way impacting her experience as a girl at the meet.[/quote]

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