In 2016 the International Olympic committee ruled that transgender athletes can compete in the Olympics without undergoing sex reassignment surgery. In 2018 the International Association of Athletics Federations, track’s governing body, ruled that women who have more than 5 nano-mols per liter of testosterone in their blood—like South African sprinter and Olympic gold medalist Caster Semenya—must either compete against men, or take medication to reduce their natural testosterone levels. The IAAF stated that women in the five-plus category have a “difference of sexual…
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Response rates from 405 1 voters.
68% Yes |
32% No |
52% Yes |
27% No |
16% Yes, but only if their hormone levels are equivalent to those in the gender category in which they compete |
4% No, athletes should compete based on the biological sex that is listed on their birth certificate |
0% No, create a separate category for transgender athletes to compete against each other |
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Unique answers from 1 voters whose views went beyond the provided options.
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Only if they transitioned since childhood and their current hormone levels are equivalent to those in the gender category in which they compete
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Yes, but only in amateur athletics or sports such as Fencing or Water Polo where skill matters more than Physical characteristics of sexes.
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No, but fundamentally this is for sporting governance bodies and officials to decide, not the federal government
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We should decelop a new type of sport that allow all athletes compete with each other,no mater what their gender is
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Trans women should not compete with real women. Trans men are allowed to compete with real men because they have no advantage unlike trans women.
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No, eliminate division by sex and use body metrics such as weight, height, hormone levels, etc instead
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Their results would not count, but they should be symbolically allowed until proper transition methods are evolved
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Gender in athletics is a caste system that promotes gendered wage gaps. All sports leagues should be gender-integrated. Gendered leagues are no better than america's racially segregated baseball leagues in the 50s.
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