Teed Rockwell
1 min readMay 15, 2021

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I appreciate having access to those facts, but as philosopher I'm inclined to respond to this issue with logic alone. There is a logical dilemma in the demand that Trans athletes compete as women, that makes this position self contradictory. If there really is no difference in the athletic prowess of men and women, there is no reason to have a separate category for women, which would require the abolition of that category, which would mean that transwomen would not be able to compete in that category. The only way you can justify having Transwomen compete with Ciswomen is to have everybody compete with each other.

Gender is a social construct, but biological sex is not. You provide lots of evidence that biological sex gives Cismen and Trans women physical advantages that require the creation of a separate competitive category for women. But even without these facts, we can't escape the conclusion that denying all difference between Trans and Ciswomen would require us to abolish different competitions for men and women.

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Teed Rockwell
Teed Rockwell

Written by Teed Rockwell

I am White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Male Heterosexual cisgendered over-educated able-bodied affluent and thin. Hope to learn from those living on the margins.

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