This is somewhat of a controversial issue. If you are easily offended, then this might not be the best blog for you.
As most people know, I am a woman athlete. The issue has risen of letting trans women play women sports. While I completely support trans people and whoever they would like to be seen as, it just is not fair to cis women.
Trans women in high school are typically not on hormones, which means they have the strength of a full man. No one would let a man play women’s sports. While they are a female they have the biological strengths and advantages of a man. Even if they are on hormones they still have the strength and height they gained during their time as a man, and despite our best medical technology we are currently unable to change it.
A good example I think of is a female high school wrestling champion. She had been champion for like 3 years in a row, when a trans women was entered she completely creamed the previous champion. This kind of thing would not happen if she didn’t have some kind of advantage.
Biology and differences go down to our very bone structure between the two sexes. People with XY chromosomes are typically much stronger and taller than people with XX chromosomes. Even women who train their whole lives to be strong still fail to compare to most men, even those who are not that active. It is all down to chemicals, men have more muscle building hormones and therefore can build more muscles with considerably less effort.
It is not an easy decision, no matter what the call is, someone will be treated unfairly. The best idea is probably to just let kids in high school play with their birth gender and for professional just have a different category for them. It just wouldn’t be fair to the millions of cis women athletes to give them competitors that have so much of an advantage over them. It’s really how to be fair to more people. It sucks but there really is no way to make it fair for cis women if trans women can compete with them. So you have to make it fair to the majority.
As a women athlete I just want the competition to be fair for us, that’s the whole reason sports are not co-ed after kids go through puberty. It is similar to a women on steroids, it’s not fair and is ban in sports, it is the same type of thing. Hopefully in the future our medical advances will make it so there is no advantages that trans women have, and then it would be fair if they can compete. However we simply are not there yet.
I am not trying to attack trans people. I respect people and their gender identity. I know some of this might not seem fair, but it really is all down to science.
