US Authoritarianism

What are your feelings about a trans man playing against cis men?

It sounds like you would think that's unfair too, but would it be unfair to the trans man or the cis men?

Believing nonsense propaganda about trans people while ignoring all the swaths of evidence disproving the propaganda does make you a transphobe, yes.

Our hyper fixation on sports, taking them deathly serious and giving them million dollar performance stakes is the problem.

They are games. Games should be fun and inclusive.

Why stop there? Let's restrict based on color and religion too! And when hate crimes follow, they deserve it, right?

The issue itself is nuanced, unfortunately the debate is not.

Transwomen who've only gone through female puberty (i.e. transitioned as minors or went on puberty blockers) are going to be physically on the same level as ciswomen.

Transwomen who've been through both puberties are going to be pretty close to the physical abilities of the average ciswomen after a few years on estrogen, though there are some permanent effects of testosterone that will remain, like build size.

Thats to say nothing of the fact that dividing sports along gender is somewhat arbitrary to begin with, while the average female athlete may be smaller and weaker than the average male athlete, there is still plenty of overlap, and it would really make more sense to divide sports along different criteria, like weight classes or some other more fair metric.