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happytoexplaintoday at 6:01 PM1 replyview on HN

Don't we already sub-categorize within a gender? E.g. boxing. I don't actually know how common that is or why some sports get this treatment and not others.


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puppycodestoday at 6:12 PM

Boxing is often the example given because its someone getting hurt, but when you actually break it down it also falls apart for boxing.

If we measured everyones strength, bone density, etc... in order to stop people from risking injury that would be one thing But basing it on your Chromosomes is lazy and inaccurate.

The point is that "fairness" being tied to whether your Cis or Trans is a hilarious hill to die on when we have advanced medical technology to actually test what we deem "fair".

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