(April 3, 2017 at 10:46 am)Jesster Wrote: While it would put the fears of fairness to rest, there's always the problem of segregating underprivileged minorities. We've seen how well that can go. It tends to just bury them out of the way so they can be ignored and neglected.
Noted, but I don't see any other way around it that's fair to everyone involved. At the end of the day, there are rules about males competing against females, and there are rules about taking hormones. There's always going to be a asterisk next to the transgender weightlifter's record mention in the OP, because she used to be a man, trained as a male weightlifter, etc. Hormone therapy can only do so much, and it seems that the situation is a catch-22. Make her compete against men and she's at a disadvantage due to her hormone therapy; make her compete against women and they are at a disadvantage because of her male physique that has allowed her to have muscle mass and strength that people born as women cannot achieve.
Having separate events solves both those issues.
