Transgender man wins women's 100 yd and 400 yd freestyle races.

Should not be allowed as they are biologically men whatever way you want to look at it!

This is classic.

The argument of "advantage" is used by trans activists as a smelly red herring. It's a complete distraction technique. A kind of, "...let's drag everyone down the rabbit hole of genetics and biology and hormones and end up with a big meaningless linguistic mess at the end".

The reality is very much different: trans women should not compete with biological women because they're not biological women. It's a question of biological categories, and not one of advantage.

Even if there was a legal guarantee that trans women would always come last, we are still against biological males competing with biological women as a matter of principle.

Let me reaffirm: advantage has nothing to do with it.

And let's not forget that biological males who identify as women take the place of a biological woman who has trained for years to earn that position. That is grossly unfair, too.

So I would urge people to avoid temptation to debate "advantage", as it ignores the real elephant in the room that biological males who identify as women shouldn't be present in the competition to begin with, even if they were guaranteed to come last.

Ditto with trans men in male sports, too.

Lia Thomas won the recent 1650yd event by 38 seconds. The story started appearing in mainstream media and attracting attention, and suddenly Lia Thomas starts putting in performances well below their previous bests.

But it is irrelevant whether or nor Lia Thomas is beaten by natal females. The simple fact is that Women's sports categories are segregated by sex due to the inherent advantage that males have over females. Hormones only diminish some of that advantage. Going through male puberty bestows a permanent advantage. Greater lung capacity, heart and frame size, blood oxygenation, etc. The studies for this have been done, and the data is in, and is incontrovertible. No male has any business competing in women's only sports. To argue for allowing any males to participate in women's categories, is to argue for the destruction of women's sports.

I'd go one step further.

Even if it were physically possible to literally adjust a biological man's body so that it was indistinguishable from a biological female's body, that person should still not be allowed to enter the women's competition simply because they're not biological women.

If we start to debate physical ability etc., we lose perspective on the much bigger picture that biological males have no place in biological female's sports - irrespective of what they identify as, and irrespective of what their "lung capacity" happens to be etc.

It simply doesn't matter.

Even if the stats were evened out, is it justifiable for a biological male to take the place of a biological female in a women's competition - when that woman may have been training for decades to get that position?

That's the real question here; the real damage to women's sport begins at this fundamental, foundational point.

As I've said before, trans- activists raise the "advantage" question as a red herring to avoid the above biological reality (which they are unable to debate against).

What part of "it doesn't matter if men beat women or vice versa" don't you understand?

It's not about advantage.

It's simple reality: that biological males, irrespective of how they identify, should not compete with biological females.

No matter how much you try to ignore this reality; it is the reality.

Trying to divert everyone down the rabbit hole of genetics and hormone levels etc. won't, and will never, undermine the above.