RE: Should Transgender Women Be Able to Compete in Athletics?
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I’m tempted to side with forgetting to be PC and say this sounds a touch unfair. Lower hurdles and no todger to knock them over with 😁
Have there been any women making the switch and wanting to compete against the boys?
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The only person I know is Chris Mosier. I don't know much about him prior to his transitions. He is a triathlete, fairly good, as far as I know.
That's exactly what I was going to say.
Competitively its unfair, thats a simple fact of life and perhaps a skeleton in the closet but it's unfair not just because of the advantages they have physically but because it's unfair that female to male transgender athletes are at a disadvantage in their chosen gender of races. Why should one TG have competitive advantage over another?
The only answer to this is to have races for TG athletes m to F and F to M. Problem solved, everyone happy. I really don't buy into this testosterone measuring nonsense but I also see the need for equal opportunities.
On a similar vein, I would never have let the South African Sprinter Oscar Pistorius compete.
I fully agree. People worked for years to have a protected space for females to compete on a level playing field and now so many people are willing to toss that level playing field aside in order to try to not offend a portion of the population.
I agree with Oscar Pistorius as well, he competitive disadvantage(his start) but was able to obtain a much high top speed then others. How we measure if that was overall disadvantage or advantage for him?