RE: The right to mis-define oneself
June 20, 2015 at 8:12 pm
(This post was last modified: June 20, 2015 at 8:19 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 20, 2015 at 7:42 pm)bennyboy Wrote: 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.
Matching opponents is tricky....but, specifically....what about basketball? Scottie Pippin seems to have set the average way back..lol, 6'8ish, maybe..lol? I'd say a 6'8 transwoman might find it more difficult to get herself into basketball (there would be resistence). She's still shorter than Margo Dydek.
(edit: just looked it up, apparently the average male basketball player is 7foot even, I was off by an inch guesing, 6.7 for a long while. Still shorter than Dydek....so I guess we'd have to be wary of a 7.3 transwoman, as the very floor where there might even be concern. Until some 7.4 chick showed up. : shrugs : )
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