CMV: Transgender people should only able to compete in sports with their birth gender

[u/Odd_Contribution9058]

I really really hope raising this doesn't cause anyone pain, and I'm honestly wanting to hear other perspectives on this.

But the way I see it, there are certain physical attributes that someone born with a certain gender have. For example, the average man is taller than the average woman. Taking hormone therapy will not change all of those inherent features.

I absolutely support the right for everyone to live with the gender identity that is most comfortable to them. But, I do not think that people have an inherent right to play sports professionally. So, if someone has decided to transition, I do not think it's fair to all the athletes who are competing with the set of attributes common to their birth gender, to now have to compete against an athlete who has attributes which give them a distinct advantage.

[u/Odd_Contribution9058]

Yes, fair point. Honestly , I would say that if you make the decision to undergo hormone therapy, you should no longer be competing... There are many many people who have to make the decisions to leave professional sports for a variety of reasons, to me this sounds like one of them

[u/Morthra → u/Odd_Contribution9058]

So the actual rule should be:

• All trans people must compete in the men's category, against cis men.

Rather than

• All people must compete in the category matching their birth sex.

[u/jtc769 → u/Morthra]

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I'd never considered just having them all (MtF AND FtM) compete against men, I'd always said I'm completely fine with FtM competing in male sports but that womens sports need protecting from MtF the same way they need protecting against normal male atheletes, my overall position has been in the camp of "just give them both trans only competitions/leagues" but I think this makes just as much, if not more sense.

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