Trans athletes: Unfair advantage?

Originally posted by Withsensibility

money and attention and focus comes as a result of talent and attraction.

And this topic is about a trans woman. Someone with higher testosterone levels who doesnt lose part of their body every month. Obviously has a higher advantage which is why women compete in a different lesser league than men in the first place!

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Unless you're referring to a period, I don't really understand what the quoted section of your post above means. "Lose part of their body"?

Also there are things of more nuance to consider than what Surtur and company are letting on. He laughs about the "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match held between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, for instance. Of no significance because Bobby Riggs was an older guy? But that was precisely the point. The DEGREE to which there is disparity between men and women, not merely that there is one. Riggs winning would have been the equivalent of your Under 17 Soccer Boys beating the Women's team, and the first thing Surtur would have quoted. It went the "wrong" way, though, so he doesn't.

I suspect your argument about money is very wrong, by the way, but you haven't stated it clearly enough to refute or support yet, being especially unclear on what you mean by "attraction".

Im referring to periods. Its a loss of iron which is a key ingredient to building muscle. This is why some female athletes take birth control pills to enhance performance. It is also produces oestrogen which the birth control pill diminishes and women in menopause tend to develop more masculine features due to the loss in oestrogen.

I didnt use the word attraction, but i assume media coverage is what he meant. He might have said/meant attention, if so, my bad. The point is male competition and male sport is pretty much a tradition since before dinosaurs and females only very recently have engaged in sport and physical competition. The reason for this is of course feminism after ww1. This movement has piled money into womens sport and encouraged attention and media coverage of womens sport. Its had lots of effort put into it. Just because male sports are more popular does not mean womens sport need more money.