Posted: Feb 26, 2019 3:03 am
I'm With Stupid wrote:The obvious problem with that is that there are so few MTF trans athletes that to find enough people to get a proper competition going is basically impossible. It's bad enough with individual sports. Imagine trying to get a football team together. It's like in the Paralympics where you get people with different disabilities and they have to make a judgement about how disabled people are while at the same time not splitting them up so much that you can't get eight people for a race.
Perhaps the rules for elite sport don't need to be identical to those at lower levels?
I couldn't honestly say off the top of my head whether the percentage of the population with some kind of physical restriction that would qualify them for the paralympics would be vastly different to the percentage of the population who might be intersex identifying as female or male to female trans. It seems possible they are at least comparable.