are you suggesting someone would go through all these procedures to win a medal?
No but:
There are mens and womens sports for a reason because men and women are physically different... if you don't agree then there should be no womens sports and no mens sports, just sports... the boxing would be interesting to watch.
The point is that they are divided into two groups because of their physicalities, not for any reasons of sexism... there is no glass ceiling for women to break there.
But if they want to compete in sport perhaps we need a new group or groups to compensate.
If you think about it there is already paralympics and that is divided into groups... male female, as well as different groups as necessary... imagine a golf game... I bet the blind people would do best on the games held at night.
The real question is... could a paralympian compete at the normal olympics... and they did with that south african guy who murdered his girlfriend... maybe a guy in a wheelchair could compete in the 100m... a souped up electric chair...
This is an excerpt from the article I posted below:
"So, we now know that there are many physical differences between males and females, which can’t be explained only by society and environment. What is it then, that causes these differences? Well, one of the major contributors is the influence of testosterone, with large differences occurring throughout puberty.
11 But even before puberty, there are observed differences in many characteristics including body size and shape, and also in levels of aggression.
12 Indeed, it is been highlighted that over
3000 genes contribute just towards muscle differences between men and women. This combination of genetic components and hormones result in many factors each contributing towards the differences that are manifested in males and females. While the effects of testosterone supplementation or inhibition may go some way to modify the original characteristics,
it is unlikely to reverse all of the
sexually dimorphic manifestations.
Now, knowing the objective data, what does this mean for trans-athletes? The rise in LGBT rights and ideas of inclusion (which are noble aims) has somehow been confused with a misunderstanding of why categorization of athletes is necessary. There has perhaps been an assumption that because
gender identity may be accepted as somewhat fluid, then biological sex must also be fluid. But someone’s own perceived gender identity is not the same as biological sex. This is an example of someone’s subjective feelings versus objective reality. And while a person is free to believe whatever they choose, their subjective feelings can never overrule empirical evidence.
It certainly may be apparent that many of the proponents of inclusion and participation are also the same people who dislike the idea of competition in general. Thus, for them the idea of not being allowed to participate in which every category a person wants is terrible. But this is not what most people think about sport and certainly not at the elite level. For example, I would love to be a 100m world champion, yet my physiology would not allow it no matter how much I trained or how much I wanted it. But I don’t feel excluded. We can’t all be capable of doing every single thing in the world, and while we want to remove artificial barriers and enable opportunity and participation, we can’t deny the facts of life.
This is not just about fairness in competition and the potential earnings at stake. While there are many females who make a living in professional sport, there is a perhaps an even larger danger. This could be apparent in
boxing and combat sports, where the higher levels of strength and power could lead to devastating consequences. There may be cries here that I am being alarmist and looking at the worst outcomes possible, which are never really going to occur. But we can’t possibly predict the future, and it is naïve to make decisions without thinking through all of the possible consequences. Indeed, some of the
outcomes of this have already began to play out. There may be some who say that we just accept it and move forward, but I don’t think that is a forgone conclusion and it certainly requires some serious dialogue and sensible discussion at many levels.
So, what other options may there be? Do we abandon the categories of sex altogether? If we choose to believe that trans women are biological women (which the evidence would disagree with), then the gap between the current sports categories of men and women will cease to exist. A continuum of performance results will undoubtably appear, so perhaps there is no need for separate sex categories at all? Well, I think it is clear what that would do to most of the women currently competing in professional sports. While this would also solve the problems of
equal pay in sport, it would likely result in far fewer women actually being able to compete at the professional level."
Sex Differences, Gender, and Competitive Sport – Quillette