Obviously this won’t work for all sports, but things like football, track, soccer, it would allow for de-gendered team, even allowing athletes with the skills but not the genetically-endowed physical attributes to have a place to play.

Note: I know very little about sports and being on a sports team, so please point out anything that doesn’t make sense.

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    Like, there are women out there with higher testorone than the average man

    No, that doesn’t happen, the adrenal glands and ovaries do not produce enough t to reach even very low male levels, testosterone for the most part is produced in the testicules which cis women do not have. that much testosterone would transition a woman into a man, they would grow beard and get a deeper voice, that’s how HRT works for FtMs.

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      they would grow beard and get a deeper voice, that’s how HRT works for FtMs.

      Plenty of people with XY chromosomes can’t grow facial and have a high pitched voice well into their 20s or even after

      And plenty of people with XX chromosomes shave/wax/bleach facial hair and have deep voices.

      Hormones aren’t binary, there’s a bunch of different hormones that can be in a lot of different ranges

      And that’s not even getting into the other options besides XX/XY

      Stop trying to make everyone conform to your binary views on gender.

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        She’s not talking about gender he’s talking about sex. Someone born with testicles with XY chromosomes is always going to produce more testosterone than someone born with ovaries with XX chromosomes - assuming both sexual organs are functioning as expected.

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          Oh, nice to know that girl who beat me (in the same weight class) at wrestling was cuz her sexual organs weren’t working properly.

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            We’re talking about testosterone in blood not wrestling abilities. A 300lb woman will beat an 110lb man in wrestling. Doesn’t mean she has higher T.

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              Amazing how one can dismiss another’s personal experience by simply insisting a different scenario happened.

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                What personal experience am I dismissing? Please explain. I’m talking about human anatomy. The organ that produces testosterone are the testicles. Ovaries produce a token amount.

                We are talking about T % in blood. Not personal experiences.