Transwomen should absolutely not compete against women in the Olympics. Even if they reduce testosterone to compete, they had the advantage of testosterone in developing their big, powerful bodies, while women's bodies divert a certain amount of energy to the vital job of potential life creation. Men and women are physiologically different. Intersex athletes are a different issue. Otherwise, it is very clear.

mjsmith wrote:fuck the olympics....

who cares if a man wants to dress up like a woman... and claims to be a woman to win an Olympic medal...

in the grand scheme of things it means nothing and will not affect 99.9999999991% of the worlds population...


hell if you are an Olympic athlete and go to rio and come back alive without some some communicable disease that's worthy of a medal...

You logged in to post this drivel?

fuck the olympics....

who cares if a man wants to dress up like a woman... and claims to be a woman to win an Olympic medal...

in the grand scheme of things it means nothing and will not affect 99.9999999991% of the worlds population...


hell if you are an Olympic athlete and go to rio and come back alive without some some communicable disease that's worthy of a medal...

Wouldn't a woman taking male hormones to transition fail even the simplest Olympic drug test?

Anonymous wrote:I play a team sport that is dominated by females, and we have transgendered woman who play with us/ against us. It really doesn't seem unfair in the slightest. But it is a very inclusive environment, so not the norm I guess

Yes but are you going to Rio?
Of course trans should be allowed to play sport in their chosen gender, but Olympics and other high profile competitions are a whole other story.

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Anonymous wrote:Not Olympics, but there was a female transgender professional tennis player decades ago and she was allowed to play professionally.

Renee Richards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renée_Richards

Found this quote interesting:

Richards has since expressed ambivalence about her legacy, and came to believe her past as a man provided her with advantages over her competitors, saying “Having lived for the past 30 years, I know if I’d had surgery at the age of 22, and then at 24 went on the tour, no genetic woman in the world would have been able to come close to me. And so I’ve reconsidered my opinion.

I think the chromosomes should dictate which “team” a person competes on, not the choice of the individual.

+1

Anonymous wrote:I would really need to see studies on it to decide. I don't know enough to say if trans women still have a competitive advantage or if the hormone therapy negates that.

It would probably differ by sport. Skeletal size would be an advantage in some sports, and there's no doubt that the average man has a larger skeleton than the average woman.