Comments by "Sean Cidy" (@seancidy6008) on "Trans athletes in women's sports: Is this fair?" video.

  1. I am definitely going to buy Sabine's new book and enjoy her forays into questions of the day, however I think here she does not come to grips with what concepts are at issue. In my opinion the opening Disorders of Sexual Development arguments has little or nothing to do with the actual complaints which are of unfairness. One trans athlete Sabine mentions Lia Thomas and I agree with the objections to her being in an all woman competition, and not because she had external testes and a normal penis when winning a prestigious college swim meet with pool and meet record time, and only 1% of female athletes manage to get to that meeting. The Spanish lady who was a high level athlete was disqualified from Olympic competition between females in her chosen sport. At this elite in effect professional level, where large amount of money are involved, trans are banned and biologic tests can establish if females have objective masculine features exceeding the level permissible for elite female only competition, and that is absolutely clear cut and will not change. At a much much lower college and other lesser levels, partially due to a fear of discrimination suits and possibly because colleges are at the cutting edge of 'woke' and anyway college women's swimming does not matter much except to the participants, trans women are often being permitted to compete as what they say they are, no questions asked . The problem has arose not because Thomas got banned from amateur competition against other men because of her being insufficiently biologically male, but because Thomas had been permitted to go from competing against only men in a certain sport to competing against only women in that same sport. That, although undistinguished while racing against men, Thomas had participated in a sustained way is a red flag. Whatever their chromosomes or unusual developmental conditions, that a person was able to hold their athletic own in male only competition enough to not be an anomalously slow competitor in an activity they choose to compete in against males ought to be the criterion for it being unjust for that person to transfer into a women only sphere of their already chosen sport. In all fairness, even very mediocre results against men in competition disqualifies a person forever more from competing against women. Some people don't care very much about sports of course; genetically engineered champions might end the Olympics as we know it, but genetically engineered physics geniuses ...?
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