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Those things are also true for males. I am not a great or even good athlete. I'm short and not fast. So I didn't win enough to get scholarships because there were other people who were bigger, stronger, faster, and better athletes. Should my emotional stability be taken into account when deciding who can compete in different sports? Or does it only matter if the person is female? If so, why?
First and foremost, it has to be clarified that what we were previously discussing was females vis-a-vis man-to-woman transgenders, and males vis-a-vis woman-to-man transgenders is a very different dynamic.
In general terms:
For starters, since before homo sapiens walked the Earth, males have recognized and accepted the physical superiority of other males. This is a dynamic that happens in just about all species of mammals.
Females, on the other hand, for the most part of humankind history, have been oppressed, treated as property, used as disposable commodities... Title IX wasn't signed into law that long ago (1972) to afford females something that resembles the same opportunities as males. And many (as I do) feel that males who declare themselves women are infringing on the rights females gained with the Education Amendments of 1972.
The man-to-woman transition requires (well, I guess it can be optional too) that a male downgrade his physical performance.
The woman-to-man transition requires that a female upgrade her physical performance through the usage of steroids. Male or female, the usage of steroids and other PEDs is frowned upon, and very illegal in mostly all of sports.
Should we care about the emotional stability of males who can't perform as well on the playing field? Sure.
Should we allow males that weren't winners in the genetic lottery to pump as much steroids into their muscles as they can so they can compete against bigger, stronger, faster males, so they feel good about themselves? No.
Do you agree or disagree?
And what do we do when less gifted males want to compete in sports?
We make weight classes, age classes, divisions...
Should we allow females to pump as much steroids into their muscles as they can compete against males? No. If you don't allow males to do that, you should not allow females to do that either.
Do you agree or disagree?