Amy Desir

This is all the information you need for you to be able to work out what the correct ‘solution’ is all by yourself. If you still don’t get it, I will tell you the solution at the end. 1. Sexed bodies, not ‘identities’, play sport, so sport is segregated by sex. 2. Every single man who ‘identifies as’ a woman is, by definition, male and thus does not belong in women’s sport, which is for females only. 3. I could have stopped at point 2 because that is all you really need to know in order to reach the obvious conclusion that no male person belongs in female sport. However, activists like you have this need to bang on about the requirement for ‘more science’ about athletic performance, even though that is irrelevant to the issue of trans identifying males in female sport. 4. The science has, in fact, been done - and lots of it, and it tells us that male sporting advantage is very significant and it lasts even when testosterone suppression is used to try to remove it. Check out the UK Sports Council’s guidance on this. 5. The reason for sex segregation is that males have a sporting advantage over females in nearly all sports at all levels (from elite down to grass roots) of somewhere between 10 and 20%, depending upon the sport in question. In some disciplines the difference is even greater. 6. This advantage starts before puberty, is massively impacted by the androgenisation of puberty and does not fade with age or testosterone suppression, and certainly not down to average female levels. This is why under 16 boys’ teams can beat top women’s international soccer teams comfortably. It is also why hundreds of 16 year-old boys beat the women’s 100m world record every year. 7. This performance advantage makes males (irrespective of “identity”) competing in female sport unfair to and dangerous for all female competitors. Moreover, males do not belong in female changing facilities where women, teenage girls and pre-pubescent girls are naked and vulnerable. 8. Just one male cheating this way impacts multiple female athletes. This is why all males should be banned from female sport. 9. Testing of wannabe female athletes is necessary because it is male athletes that ignore the boundaries women try to erect and cheat their way into women’s sport, both for validation and to garner success that their athletic prowess would not afford them if they were to compete in the male category where they belong. 10. Women athletes who claim to ‘identify as’ men do not tend, in general, to seek to compete with men. This is because they know it would be a fruitless exercise in competitive terms as they would lose. 11. Not only would they lose, but they would be the ones at risk of serious injury. Nor is there a risk of injury to the male competitors. 12. There is thus no need for males to be tested to make sure they are actually male - there is no real drive to participate by the women concerned and the male athletes don’t feel threatened. 13. Testing regimes are for sporting integrity. The solution is that in all sex-affected sports (which is the vast majority of them) There needs to be: 1. An exclusively female category for women, protected by robust PCR sex screening tests by means of a cheek swab conducted at the beginning of the athletes career. This would effectively create a sports sex passport. 2. An open category for everyone else. This is inclusive for everyone as no one is excluded. If trans athletes feel that this is unfair, then they can campaign for, and fund, their own categories. Glad to be of assistance.