LogFAQs > #954783240

Trans men shouldn't be able to compete with women because they (presumably) use steroids (which makes them inelligable to compete).

Trans women should still be able to compete with men in my opinion because they were born biologically a man, and in theory the drugs they take (estrogen I think) are not considered a steroid and won't give them an advantage in the sport.

They still would naturally create more testosterone then a natural women though, have denser bones/muscles etc which would give them an advantage playing against natural women, so the only solution is to allow trans-women to still compete against men.

The only other solution is just to take gender out of the equation all together and not have men/women leages but have everyone compete together. That would be pretty unfair to natural women though in most cases since they can't usually compete well against men in the same sport.

Therefore, to keep things as fair as possible I propose.

Trans-women can compete against normal men and join normal male teams.

Trans-men who take steroids can compete against normal women in any sport where steroids is not an issue (not sure if many such sports exist...maybe some do. IF a trans-man doesn't use steroids at all, and has no advantage over a normal woman (could still have sugery etc, just can't take drugs to make themselves more masculine, and can identify as a man) then they could still compete against normal women.

Gender identity shouldn't have any effect on who you can compete against profesionally. You can identify as whatever you want. The defining factor should be birth gender and if you are taking any drugs that would give you an advantage that would disqualify you.

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