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I know you're responding to him and not me, but a couple of points:

hockeybub89 posted...

This at least shows there is a difference and it lessens over time. I never said it was exact.

I mentioned before, the nature of the advantage and how big it is is important. Say males have a 30% advantage over women in an elite sport (which is about right for weightlifting). If you transition and lose 20% of your male advantage, you're not going to win any medals in the men's division but you're still in a totally different class than the women's division. You're going to trounce every record imaginable to a point where no person previously or since in that class could even come close. You'd effectively be creating a new record set that only people who transition have a hope of achieving in the women's division.

It sounds ridiculous but that's the reality of how far apart the goalposts are. 10% is a huge distance to cross when the difference between the gold medal and last place at the Olympics is typically less than 2%.

But we're basically saying trans women are men and transitioning is worthless, and that's hateful bullshit that flies in the face of reality. Either they are always women or they are never women and they will get eaten alive playing with men.

I mean are people only transitioning so that they can compete in a sports division? I don't get this bit.