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

I have voiced no "position" - unlike yourself.

Unless you consider saying that the evidence states that it is not a given that transgender women will (due to this advantage some people claim they have) always win which will destroy women's sport is a position.

My actual position is that it is a very complex subject that requires careful consideration, making blanket statements about biological male bodies having an advantage is kneejerking until the full evidence is available, as is seeking a one size fits all approach to sports. Women play a hell of a lot of different sports - it's not all Katie Taylor.

Yet Transgender woman lost twice in same race meet so that's demonstrably nonsense.

Crap advantage if they get beaten.

Or, and this is the point - it's not so much an advantage, if it exists, that it should disqualify them.

Most top athletes have some physical advantage that gives them an edge - do we ban tall left handed tennis players? Basketball players over 7 foot tall? Swimmers with big feet? Footballers who are ambipedal? Do athletes with these physical advantages always win?

If it's not the same why even bring doping into it?

Caster Semenya hasn't been celebrated. Far from it. She, biologically female and identifies as female, is being punished for her natural advantage. In the 12 years of her competitive career she was restricted for 9 of those years - the most infamous if these restrictions being she should artificially lower her naturally occurring testosterone. Literally take performance inhibiting drugs.

Semenya isn't the only biologically female athlete subject to this body policing to reduce a naturally occurring advantage. In recent years alone Christine Mboma who won silver in Tokyo, Francine Niyonsaba who won silver in Rio, and Margaret Wambui who it was discovered, in 2019, has an intersex condition. All were assigned as female at birth and have lived their lives as women.

Sex verification of male athletes is not undertaken but a study in 2014 of 693 elite athletes showed 16.5% of the biologically male ones have very low testosterone levels while 13. 7% of females has high levels. Essentially the levels of naturally occurring testosterone in these two groups was pretty much on the same level regardless of biological sex.