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That's a lie. If it were true than male hormones wouldn't make a woman more of a man for competition. It's hormones that makes the man - or the woman. You clearly don't know what you're talking about.
And the lie continues. Olympics committees make their policies based on scientific data going back more than 50 years. If the high and low parameters of various performance enhancing hormones and natural steroid levels have to be narrowed to account for sex change, that can be accomplished easily enough, too. The comprehensive drug tests needed to level the playing field are readily available.
You’re confusing the effects of natural hormones and those of the artificial variety. Artificial hormones can temporarily boost bulk and thus performance, but for the most part take away the hormones and the effects fade.
Thomas was born a man. His/her hormones had years to develop his body a certain way, irrespective of how Thomas thought about the process. I don’t care that he /she identifies as a woman; that’s not a lie as such. He/she only lies when claiming to be competing on a level field with biological women— even those born with high testosterone— because he/she underwent some hormone suppression for a year. That’s an illegitimate use of trans identity, and though I’m no fan of Dawkins, that’s a legitimate ethical question to raise.
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