Only if they have an unfair advantage. Probably those who started puberty blockers at a young age would be able to compete fairly. It would also likely exclude some women with intersex conditions.
I don’t agree. We are able to say that an adoptive or step-parent is not the biological parent of their child without implying they are not parents at all. Sometimes biology is important, and sports is one of those times.
Like @RickJay said, it would be better to rename the categories and make it really clear they are about biology and not gender. Running races against men doesn’t make someone not a woman, and vice versa.
What does “female” mean to you? I used that term quite deliberately; I mean FEMALES, which is a biological designation, not a vague gender term. People whose physiology develops along the line towards the production of large gametes and the bearing of young. They’re half the population and specifically the half that the other half has oppressed since before the dawn of recorded history.
If you don’t care about them, just admit it, but they deserve an opportunity.
They have opportunities. How cis girls participate in girls school sports? Millions at just the high-school level. How many trans girls particulate in school sports? 500? God forbid 1,000. Trans girls care not excluding cis girls from school sports.
Only as a way to avoid the flat-out evil of excluding trans girls while v letting others participate. And under that plan, everyone would be equal as effort would be key.
There is absolutely no possible progress in discussions until you are willing to engage in defining what “female” means to you.
As the thread is all about men transitioning to women and what, if any, advantages remain. If you do not accept that there is any biological difference between males and females (not “girls” and “boys” or “men” and “women”) then the conversation becomes meaningless.
To have these discussions, we have to acknowledge that words have multiple meanings. Female has several definitions, among which are:
of, relating to, or being the sex that typically has the capacity to bear young or produce eggs
having a gender that is the opposite of male
Both of these (and others) are definitions of “female”. Most people can infer the specific definition that is implied by the speaker when they say “female”. All other definitions of female still exist even though one of them is “gender opposite of male”.