It is not misogyny to note that men are biologically stronger than women.
That's not what the misogyny is about.
The misogyny comes from the idea of trans women daring to be women and deny their "manhood" by doing so. As if women are lesser. And the majority of the public agree with this, even if they don't realize it. That's why there's the upset over trans women.
It's why there's rarely issues from people - men mostly - about trans men. What you hear in protest about trans men comes from women who say they're 'gender traitors' or they have 'bought into the patriarchy'.
But arguments from men, not so much.
A trans man does not gain the bulk and the muscle and the strength by transitioning to a man.
Maybe not as much bulk as a non-trans man, or maybe they do, it depends on time of transition, hormone treatments, etc.
Not all men are bulky, strong, muscular men, after all.
He does not gain advantage over the competition by the transition.
Doesn't he though? I mean, having a "Female body" would make a trans man - by your logic - lighter, thus faster so a trans man should excel in sports demanding speed, for instance. A trans man would do better in gymnastics than a straight man too, right?
And I think in the end the only non-sexist, non judgemental way to settle this for everybody is to remove the distinction between male and female sports. Have everybody compete in one competition and let the chips fall where they may.
That's one way to solve it. Another would be - as biased and bigoted and sexist as it is - to have a trans only competition. Though the downside of that would be the number of participants; there'd be a lot of golds going out since there might only be one or two trans competitors in the sport.
And then you'd have to define the people who participate; are they only trans people, or people who just have unnaturally high hormones, or low hormones? And how do you determine these things? Do you genetic test all those athletes and anyone except the XX/XY are pushed into the 'trans' events?
As kids, before puberty, it doesn't matter really if the teams are mixed or not; the playing field is literally even. Only when they hit puberty do the differences start and as pointed out in the piece, denying trans women from sports invalidates all women and puts them at second class, because now you have even non-trans young women being suspected of being trans, all because they're good at a sport.
It's not a matter of uniting the genders into a sport, it's a matter of people needing to grow the hell up and realize that trans people - regardless of which gender - are that gender and are equal to others of that gender. And to "Fix" the issues usually cried about from the anti-trans types, is to allow trans kids to transition beyond socially at an earlier age; meaning allowing trans kids after they have been defined as trans to take the proper hormones asap, and not wait until they're older and the wrong hormones have done the damage already.
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