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these are laws specifically to oppress trans people and put a wedge between them and "the rest" by fearmongering and othering, from as early as they can possibly manage.
Even with big stakes, trans women in sports is not a "problem" it never has been, if it was they would be winning a lot more medals, I'll tell you that. But they aren't, because they don't have any advantages over cis women just by virtue of being trans (if anything, they have significant disadvantages like being the target of so much hate).
This is 100% motivated by bigotry under the guise of "think of the children!!1"
Is it just winning that you call a problem? It seems unfair to an Olympic hopeful woman to be held out of the Olympics because a man who transitioned is better than you.
Here is the rub. It's not the fact one's sex is male that is the advantage. It's male puberty. If a person never goes through a male puberty regardless of their chromasomal makeup you don't get any of the advantages in sport that cis men have.
Trans people and the medical systems which have studied trans adults and kids and reached a level of confident diagnosis are fighting so which puberty one ultimately experiences is an option and not something you are forced to experience because people around you do nothing.
Most athletes are in their early twenties. If we managed to actually let medical and social service professionals facilitate trans kids in a handful of years you basically solve this problem.
Can't believe you're being downvoted a lot. Any trans woman person on medication for long enough will just simply not have the muscle mass they had before. It's basic science.
I mean if people were really that concerned, which I imagine they aren't and just want to discriminate, you could just ensure they took medication for several years above a certain amount using blood tests. Not sure if they do currently, but they should probably do that for testosterone too.
Then it gets even weirder because sports aren't defined by gender anymore but by hormones, but maybe that actually makes more sense? As that affects what muscle you can build?
That doesn't surprise me (though I can't actually see any downvotes on kbin which I should, not that I don't believe you, it's just odd), people get so defensive of "muh gender" as if other people being trans is somehow an attack on their cis identity (an attack they're making up of course, it's projection). Reality has never mattered to them, they just want to punch down at someone to feel big.
If only they'd focus that energy on the people selling them these lies to distract them from the real threats society faces..
But that's why divide and conquer is so effective - keep people low and powerless, then give them someone even more powerless to take their aggression out on, distraction achieved!