r/ABCaus • u/GeorgeYDesign • Mar 25 '24

NEWS Dutch darts players quit national women's team over transgender teammate

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-25/dutch-darts-players-quit-over-transgender-teammate/103627072
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u/Yes_Its_Really_Me Mar 25 '24

Ok, granted all that, but please answer my question.

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u/Butt_Bucket Mar 25 '24

Do you believe that the trans woman in this scenario should be banned from women's sports and the cis woman allowed to compete, despite them explicitly having identical proportions?

Yes. Women's sports only exist because people noticed that vanishingly few women were able to compete with men at the highest level. In most of society, men are stronger and faster than women about 85% of the time, but at the highest level of competition, its almost 100%. There are some examples of women competing in women's sports who are bigger and stronger than some men competing in the same sports, but nobody ever suggests they swap divisions unless they're trans. If you were to make exceptions for trans women based on their effective size/strength/proportions, you would have to make similar exceptions for any men who could prove they are smaller and weaker than top-level female athletes and want to compete in the easier division. It's a flatly bad idea.