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So, important first thing: Caster Semenya is not a transgender athlete. She’s just a woman with naturally high testosterone. People treat her like a freak and try to say she isn’t a women bc she is naturally strong and looks a bit masculine. But she’s a cis woman, like them.
Trans people stuck up for her bc, basically, we don’t think people should be bullied for looking too masculine or too feminine. But letting Semenya compete with other cis women without being forced to suppress her natural testosterone isn’t directly relevant to trans athletes.
i was asking about trans athletes vs male or female sports. idk anything about this person, just wondering how that plays out when/if the subject comes up.
Lol, yeah, I got around to that but I wanted to start by making clear that this athlete who is the target of so much hate isn’t even trans- she’s hated for not looking like some people think a woman should look, which is something trans people know a lot about.
All that being said, the Olympics allows trans women to compete with other women after being on hormones for long enough, with a testing regimen, bc research shows trans women don’t have an advantage after they’ve been on hormones long enough to lose muscle mass.
This has been the case since 2004. So far the only transgender Olympian has been a trans man, who competed against men. Trans women haven’t dominated the women’s competition in the past 15 yrs, but if they suddenly did I’m sure the guidelines would be reconsidered.
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about this, so im asking,HONESTLY, could someone explain to me how it's fair to either female sports, or transgender athletes, if they compete on the same fields? im not being condescending, i truly have no clue how this is supposed to work, for either....