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VideoboysaysCube posted...

I don't think it's so much hating the person, but rather how we're supposed to completely ignore the biology of a person when it comes to their participation in certain events. For instance, males have better athleticism than females. And it wouldn't be fair if someone who's biologically male participates alongside females.

But what you and others who think like you don't understand is that the standard upon which competitive classifications are based is a one-size-fits-all concept when it shouldn't be, because not all men or women have the same hormone levels, you can find women who are still genetically female who have higher testosterone levels than a given person who happens to be genetically male. And where do you class intersex people who've been raised in one particular gender all their life and didn't even know they were intersex for most of that time, like Caster Semenya?

A simple biological fact is that black African XX women have more testosterone than white European XX women, naturally so, yet it tends to be the hormone levels of the latter that are chosen as the guideline. Which is both racist and unfair.

And that problem even affects people who aren't trans. People like Semenya, whose entire gender identity was called into question all in a minute purely because her hormone levels weren't what the IOA judged they should be. Cis women who are menopausal, too. So why are you effectively saying that they should be reclassified to compete as men if they're not and never have been male at all?

P. S. @BlackScythe0 trans people are "transgender people". Not "transgenders". Would you like it if somebody called you "a cisgender" instead of a cisgender *person*? It's dehumanising.

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