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Originally Posted by Crowbob
I think it's great.
We should have sports be sports. No women's tennis, no men's tennis; just tennis. Same game, same rules.
Wrestling, football, hockey, soccer. All of them.
No distinctions by sex. Same lockerooms, same terlets, same equipment. Get rid of every and any distinction by sex not only for sports but for academics, the military, everything.
And I mean everything.
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A lot of sport rules are set up for fairness and safety.
Different weight classes, age groups and even the size of the schools with a larger talent pool to draw upon.
I don't see how allowing these transgender persons to compete is in the spirit of fairness or safety.
They certainly don't deserve a spot in the history books for breaking records.
Heck the Olympics does chromosome tests for a reason.
Sex verification in sports
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_verification_in_sports
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The first mandatory sex test issued by the IAAF for woman athletes was in July 1950 in the month before the European Championships in Belgium. All athletes were tested in their own countries.[1] Sex testing at the games began at the 1966 European Athletics Championships in response to suspicion that several of the best women athletes from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were actually men.[2] At the Olympics, testing was introduced in 1968.
Initially, sex verification took the form of physical examinations. It subsequently evolved into chromosome testing, and later testosterone testing. It is not always a simple case of checking for XX vs. XY chromosomes, or sex hormone levels, to determine whether an athlete is unambiguously a woman or a man. Fetuses start out as undifferentiated, and the Y chromosome turns on a variety of hormones that differentiate the baby as a male. Sometimes this does not occur, and people with two X chromosomes can develop hormonally or phenotypically as a male, and people with an X and a Y can develop hormonally or phenotypically as a female.[3]
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