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CyricZ posted...

That's a decision for women to make, not men.

The reason womens' sports exist is because women were prohibited from competition so they made their own competitions.

Which clearly isn't an issue anymore and shouldn't be used as a reason for why these divisions continue to exist.

As an aside, it feels like some of these arguments come from a complete contempt of sports, to be honest. Like it's just a silly past time, and if it matters to anyone beyond the level of playing a board game with friends on a friday night then you're taking it too seriously.

I mean, tell that to Caster Semenya, or Simone Biles, or Katie Ledecky. Are they taking it too seriously?

As I said before, you can count on it that if you make it easy enough (i.e. if the only thing that counts is whether you put an X against men or women on the application card), the entire sporting world will be walked over by mediocre male athletes being put forward by corrupt organisations to clean up at the olympics, just like what happened with BALCO and the eastern bloc. This will happen at the expense of more deserving competitors (including trans athletes). And it would be an even greater difference, because the best PED protocols could only dream of being half as effective as male puberty has proven to be.

Women's sports would become a complete joke, and that would be a loss to all.