RAD_84 wrote:
a transgender person, especially one whose bodily characteristics have been altered through surgery or hormone treatment to ...more
RAD_84 wrote:
a transgender person, especially one whose bodily characteristics have been altered through surgery or hormone treatment to bring them into alignment with their gender identity.
"a pre-operative male-to-female transsexual"
Make fun of if you will, but I feel one's time is better spent not caring what others do with their lives or how they live them for that matter. The world needs more people to be understanding, even if you don't agree with.
I'm not making fun of anyone, the terminology used these days is not intuitive at all and changes so rapidly it's hard to know what people are talking about unless you keep up with the scene. As for people having an issue with a trans woman competing in a bmx competition, I feel like you're leaving out that it was most likely a female bmx contest. I could be wrong but that's my assumption. Now if people were up in arms about a trans woman competing in an open competition or a male competition I would also have a big problem with that.
You mention how people shouldn't be worrying about how others identify and how they live their lives. I agree that you or I have no right to tell someone else how they need to present themselves or how they should live their life. However as soon as the way you choose to live your life starts to negatively and unfairly impact the lives of others(i.e. biological female athletes) there is a problem. I'm sure 99% of people would be fine if a trans woman wanted to compete against their biological sex, the problem is that biological women have just as much of a right to fair competition as everyone else and the pro trans side chooses to ignore this.
Like I said before, gender theory is changing at such a rapid rate, your own definition of what a trans woman is doesn't apply to athletics anymore. The IOC removed the upper testosterone limit of 10nm/L for 12 months recently because they deemed biological men to not have any genetic advantage over females. 10nm/L equates to 288ng/dl. The average young healthy male should be around 300ng/dl at minimum. Sounds like this test level makes the competition fair right? Now look at the test level of an elite level female athlete. They can push 70-80 ng/dl at the absolute highest, the average is closer to 50. is a test level of 4x greater than that of an elite female athlete really fair competition? That's not even taking into account, bone density, bone structure, fast twitch muscle fibers, muscular structure, muscle mass, body fat%, not having to deal with a menstrual cycle etc.