Yeeper wrote:
Ah. There the key difference is pre-pubescent biological male. Based on the evidence we have there is no apparent unfair advantage. So those people can suck it up idc how upset they are. Of the evidence shows their is no advantage then their perception of it being unfair is just that and they’re ill-informed.
If we get new data that shows there is an advantage then I’ll amend my position.
First, she's 13, and therefore well within the window for onset of male puberty. Assuming we're still talking about the girl in the OP, I think I skipped about 100 Yeeper-DSW "clarification" posts.
That aside, even if "the science" is conclusive that there's no performance advantage to the pre-pubescent male over "biological" female, I still have issues.
One is consistency. It might be "unfair" to let a trans girl play and compete with women for years - until the first hint of male puberty - and then pull the carpet from underneath her. It might be better for long-term well-being to have a continuous, consistent set of playmates and competitors. I say might. I'll let genuine scientists answer that. It just seems like a tradeoff to me, with its own pitfalls.
The second, is I feel the decisions - at any age - regarding things like hormone blockers and surgeries to be 100% based on the well-being of the person. And zero % on meeting some sports rule. The scenario of a high school freshman trans girl going on hormone blockers not purely for dysphoria symptom relief, but because of state scholastic rule VXV.14.a so she can continue to compete as a girl is borderline horrifying to me. Those decisions are between kids, their parents, and doctors. Sports officials or state legislators should have near-zero influence, even indirectly.
I felt the same way about Caster Semenya. (not trans, but some similar issues). For a short period she went on hormone blockers to meet a sports rule, and described it as an utterly awful part of her life. That's wrong. She might disagree with me, but I think it might have been more ethical to tell her, "You're a female in many ways. But you have testes. I'm sorry, your Olympic-level competition cohort is other people with testes." (I'm just assuming here that she has testes that produce T, though her precise physiology is understandably private. It seems consistent with what we know about her.)