I think that in some instances it is absolutely unfair.
Sports are not all alike and something like weight lifting and MMA do not compare to something like golf. In strength sports being born and raised and trained while a male is tantamount to a female using performance enhancing drugs her entire life.
It makes me think of Oscar Pistorius and the advantage that modern prosthetics can deliver (and they are only getting better)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...advantage/
Our natural tendency is to feel sympathy for people and I think it is overriding our ability to judge right from wrong in some cases. There are prosthetics that allow people to jump much higher and farther than any person ever could without such enhancements. It is unfair to use sympathy as an argument to allow people who have gained an advantage through human technology to compete with such a distinct advantage.
ps. Yes, it is fair to compare these two different ideas as they are both discussing an advantage created by advancements in human technology. Both prothetics and gender reassignment surgery/hormonal manipulation are the result of human ingenuity.
Sports are not all alike and something like weight lifting and MMA do not compare to something like golf. In strength sports being born and raised and trained while a male is tantamount to a female using performance enhancing drugs her entire life.
It makes me think of Oscar Pistorius and the advantage that modern prosthetics can deliver (and they are only getting better)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/artic...advantage/
Our natural tendency is to feel sympathy for people and I think it is overriding our ability to judge right from wrong in some cases. There are prosthetics that allow people to jump much higher and farther than any person ever could without such enhancements. It is unfair to use sympathy as an argument to allow people who have gained an advantage through human technology to compete with such a distinct advantage.
ps. Yes, it is fair to compare these two different ideas as they are both discussing an advantage created by advancements in human technology. Both prothetics and gender reassignment surgery/hormonal manipulation are the result of human ingenuity.
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