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Why are competitive advantages a problem for trans women but not for anyone else? Breanna Stewart (a cis woman) has a wingspan longer than most men taller than her, let alone the women she plays against. Is that unfair? Should we ban her from the WNBA? What about entire groups of people that have biological traits that give them a competitive advantage in certain sports over the rest of world? For example Kenyan and Ethiopian athletes from certain tribes that dominate long distance running in part because of biological advantages. Should we ban them?

And despite the physical advantages they might have, there is little evidence that trans women have some systemic advantage over cis women in sports results. This is a culture war issue fanned by right wing transphobes who hyper focus on a handful of absolute tiny trans women who have done well (out of an already small pool of trans athletes). And the result is that it also negatively harms cis women such as Caster Semenya, Imane Khelif, or even Serena Williams.

The "unfair advantage" part doesn't actually exist. It's been accounted for with the 2 year break you have to take. People who still think there is any unfair advantage involved haven't actually looked into it.

It's easy to get caught up when people say it happens, but every example where people think it happened since the rules around it were set decades ago have been debunked. It's already been handled. But of course, we always remain open to if there are any other adjusments that still need to be made. Basically, there is just no conspiracy or agenda.

And honestly, there is no such thing as 100% male or 100% female to start with. That's just not how the 35 million billion parts humans are comprised of that were never designed to go together in the first place ended up working out when jammed together. Humans are incredibly complex. There are dozens of identified and untold amounts of unidentified markers that determine "how much" male or female our various component makeup is, and the odds of anyone getting 100% of all of them maxxed out to one side is slim enough that it has likely never happened.