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2645037, RE: it's actually a fair point
Posted by 3xKrazy, Tue Feb-27-18 08:07 PM

>The person in question is a biological female though. Whatever
>performance enhancement they are getting is not going to make
>them stronger than boys of the same age.

Uhhh...you don't really seem to understand how this works.

>
>Also, this is high school sports, not the Olympics. Having
>taught and coached in schools before, the point of youth
>sports is not to provide a perfectly even playing field, but
>to give kids opportunities to participate and benefit from
>sporting.

This would be a separate argument altogether.

>If your argument is that biological women taking testosterone
>are going to be operating at a level that makes it unfair to
>men…I'm going to need some convincing, or historical
>precedent.

I'm not even sure what you're talking about. She's competing against females so why are we talking about it being unfair to men?

Furthermore, all I said was that we don't know anything about her drugs, dosages, etc. and therefore cannot speculate on whatever performance enhancing effects were derived.

I said nothing about fairness one way or the other.