my stance on the trans athlete debate is always and forever going to be that sports should be completely desegregated because humans have one of the smallest levels of sexual dimorphism in the animal kingdom and the disparity we see between male and female performance is entirely caused by social factors rather than anything biological. “should trans women compete against cis women” i think cis men and cis women could compete fairly but that’s apparently a little too spicy for people to wrap their minds around bc they’ve been told their whole lives women are biologically inferior & never thought to question that. or wonder if it’s maybe a self fulfilling prophecy of some kind. are women biologically inferior or do they appear so because patriarchy demands that of us?
and once you start to factor in how boy's sports receive far more support, funding, and opportunities than girl sports. how young men are encouraged to work out and eat because they are "growing boys" while girls are still shamed for lifting weights and eating "too much" because they will get "bulky"; you start to wonder how much of it is nature vs. nurture.
