(June 20, 2015 at 12:29 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Is it -inherently- a mismatch to put a trans woman in competition with a biological woman? Only the stats could say........and yes, I get that men put up the better numbers, on average......but that's not what we're talking about....do -transwomen- put up the better numbers, on average?Well, according to the IOC, it's okay for a transwoman to compete in women's sports because there's no advantage, and they've based it on science. So there's that, which is the reason for my edit.
I suppose the question is where transwomen fit into the male bell curve physically. For example, the tallest athletes are clearly men, and so what about basketball? But it may be that none of the men who become transwomen come from that edge of the bell curve. Maybe 200kg guys are less likely to identify as women.