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• throwaway8581 6y ago
  High school boys routinely perform better than professional female athletes.
  • edanm 6y ago
    I get where you're coming from, and I'm not sure how I feel about this myself. As far as I understand it, the view proposed by people who think that trans women don't have an advantage only applies in cases where the trans women have been taking various drugs, which e.g. lower testosterone. This would at least somewhat mitigate how much of an advantage someone who was male at birth has over someone who was female at birth. That also makes your counterargument (high school boys perform better than pro female athletes) less relevant - I think that everyone agrees that in most cases, males without any hormone changes will perform better than females in various female activities. As for whether the supplementation to cause a transition from male to female is sufficient to "overcome" the default biological advantage males have over females - I think that's a valid question, but that's exactly what scientists publishing in journals are trying to do. If we dismiss that ahead of time, then how will we ever know the truth?