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With the recent issues of transgender people in sports, why don’t we move some sports over to a weight-class system? (midwest.social)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Obviously this won’t work for all sports, but things like football, track, soccer, it would allow for de-gendered team, even allowing athletes with the skills but not the genetically-endowed physical attributes to have a place to play.

Note: I know very little about sports and being on a sports team, so please point out anything that doesn’t make sense.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (16 children)

Like, there are women out there with higher testorone than the average man

No, that doesn't happen, the adrenal glands and ovaries do not produce enough t to reach even very low male levels, testosterone for the most part is produced in the testicules which cis women do not have. that much testosterone would transition a woman into a man, they would grow beard and get a deeper voice, that's how HRT works for FtMs.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (15 children)

they would grow beard and get a deeper voice, that’s how HRT works for FtMs.

Plenty of people with XY chromosomes can't grow facial and have a high pitched voice well into their 20s or even after

And plenty of people with XX chromosomes shave/wax/bleach facial hair and have deep voices.

Hormones aren't binary, there's a bunch of different hormones that can be in a lot of different ranges

And that's not even getting into the other options besides XX/XY

Stop trying to make everyone conform to your binary views on gender.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (14 children)

She's not talking about gender he's talking about sex. Someone born with testicles with XY chromosomes is always going to produce more testosterone than someone born with ovaries with XX chromosomes - assuming both sexual organs are functioning as expected.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Oh, nice to know that girl who beat me (in the same weight class) at wrestling was cuz her sexual organs weren't working properly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We're talking about testosterone in blood not wrestling abilities. A 300lb woman will beat an 110lb man in wrestling. Doesn't mean she has higher T.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Amazing how one can dismiss another's personal experience by simply insisting a different scenario happened.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What personal experience am I dismissing? Please explain. I'm talking about human anatomy. The organ that produces testosterone are the testicles. Ovaries produce a token amount.

We are talking about T % in blood. Not personal experiences.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Bro, don't pretend you know what a woman's T levels are if you never met them.

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