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this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2025
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Doesn't this still result in the same issue, though? If cis men tend to sprint faster (for example) because of an inherent physiological advantage, there's a need to rank women's results separately regardless of whether they ran alongside, and at that point you still have to decide whether you include trans women in that group, rank trans women (or all trans competitors) in their own grouping, or exclude them from grouping, and all of these feel unfair in one way or another.
Sports are inherently unfair, always were. Nobody has any control over their genetics, having a longer stride or bigger lungs or a faster metabolism are advantages that can be difficult to overcome and vary widely even among people with the same assigned birth gender/sex. Especially in regard to kids & teens sports, most people can remember at least one kid in school who hit their growth spurt early and dominated at a variety of physical activities as a result. The simplest answer is to separate by height & weight instead of gender, it might not be perfect but it would be a hell of a lot closer than what we've been doing.
No. if there's no body to decide it then it's your own choice and bigots are just going to do their bigoted shit you just wouldn't need to care about it at all.