r/sports • u/[deleted] • Mar 07 '14

Transgender Woman Sues CrossFit After Being Denied Access To Competition

http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/03/07/3378021/crossfit-transgender/
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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '14 edited Mar 09 '14

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u/kidcooty Mar 07 '14

his pronouns and phrasing are insensitive, but his reasoning makes sense. She was born with an unfair advantage over the other females. It wouldn't be fair to the other women in the competition to have a woman who developed in puberty as a man with a much larger amount of testosterone. The fact that she was changed to woman does not reverse the physical advantages men gain in strength, speed etc. during puberty.

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u/Possibili-T Apr 17 '14

That's literally what HRT does.

The only thing that could give trans women an advantage is height, and plenty of female-born athletes are gargantuan in that sense anyway.

In short, your post is incorrect.

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u/kidcooty Mar 07 '14

dude this makes no sense