(April 3, 2017 at 10:31 am)Tiberius Wrote: Out of interest, would there be any objections (from people here, trans or not) to having separate events for transsexual athletes in sports, so that MtF can compete against each other, and likewise, FtM can compete against each other? That seems like the most obvious and fair solution to me.
I can see where you are coming from with this, but idk if it's the right solution. I don't think it get the balance right between competitive fairness and the trans persons rights to gender determination. To me it seems a bit like telling a trans person they are not male/female enough to properly compete as a male/female. Also don't know if there are enough trans athletes to actually make a worthwhile competition (maybe at national levels, but when you get down to school/college level you might only have one or two trans athletes in any given competition).
I think a better solution would be to scrap events based on gender altogether and group according to ability, so you'll have a mix of genders in all events. Kinda like the way disability is grouped into different classes at the paras maybe?
