that's an answer to a completely different question

@IamBane physical disadvantage=struggle to kick a ball

because i enjoy seeing the other side's point of view, and i'm confident enough with my opinions/beliefs to place them out in the open...This way, i know my strong AND weak points.

Moreover, i am convinced that i do NOT know everything, and hearing from people with varying experiences helps to clarify mine.

u don't because ur not that girl in lane 2 about to be smoked by testosterone.

@IamBane It wouldn't matter to me. But then again, that's MY opinion and not yours. Last I heard, everyone is entitled to an opinion.

@IamBane What testosterone? You understand women have testosterone too don't you?

@MichaelSpinler please read my post below. This is shockingly ignorant.

@MichaelSpinler How do you know I am not an expert?

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@Amisja ummmm????

@MichaelSpinler Not an academic source, one person's opinion.

@Amisja by how u speak about this topic

@IamBane Eh?

@MichaelSpinler No knowing a 'transgender' (thats awful) doesn't. However being the lead for LGBT+ at the university, I teach at does.

@Amisja no it doesn't! haaaaaaaa

@MichaelSpinler Yes...your expert eh?

@MichaelSpinler Not necessarily. I read some of 'your expert's' work. She is clearly right wing and elludes to passages from gospel, the bible, mother theresa etc...she has an agenda

@MichaelSpinler Check the science and what I wrote previously

@MichaelSpinler Ok here goes...two registrations in nursing, two BScs, dip management, dip counselling, dip sexual health, PGcert teaching, MSc global medicine, non-medical prescriber FHEA....currently finishing my doctorate. That do ya?

@MichaelSpinler transwomen have a lifetime of hormone therapy.

@MichaelSpinler sex reassigment? Who even says that? Its 2018 gender affirmation please

@MichaelSpinler decide? They don't decide. They have no choice

@MichaelSpinler there are biologically born women with extra testosterone. And up until the last Olympics those woman were banned for failing the "test"

What's the most salient variable in ur list?

@IamBane Depends on the event, when the person changed gender (someone who changed as a child would be different than an adult), depends on the skills required. Archery for example my not confer an advantage to a person transing

@Amisja now ur making sense....i agree....depends on whether they have had hormone treatment, etc...Albeit, and i should have made my self clearer, track and field, in particular running, was what prompted me to ask the question.

@IamBane My nephew is trans and to be honest I seriously think he could outrun any biological guys his age. Trans isn't as simple as chopping a willy off and providing hormones. Hormone treatments (male to female ) create increased emotionality, decrease in muscle growth, increase in adipose tissue around the buttocks and abdomen. In addition they are likely to have a change in gait, relearning the centre of gravity and movements can be difficult. Transwomen are more likely to experience osteoarthiritis, depression and anxiety. You are wrong

@Amisja Here's the example I have heard that speaks to my point: If Bo Jackson underwent gender reassignment, there isn't a woman on planet Earth that could best him in 99% of all physical, sports activity, in ANY apples to apples comparison.....That's my point, and that seems UNFAIR to me.

@IamBane I have no idea who that is.

@Amisja the problem with ur last sentence is economic: the last 3 words weren't needed.

@IamBane no ifs.....if Bo Jackson had not played football he would be in the baseball hall of fame. See.

When was the last knitting competition televised: I must have missed that pay-per-view event!

@IamBane Where does it say in your OP about something being televised? We have televised baking, cooking and sewing programmes..why not knitting?

@IamBane I have never seen a knitting competition, but I did watch a rock/paper/scissors competition (briefly) that was on tv.

@Amisja u MAY be missing my point!??????!

@IamBane No you are being transphobic

@Amisja u don't waste any time, do ya?

@IamBane life is short and this is ignorant

@Amisja what's ignorant?

@OwlInASack couldn't i just as easy say ur being transphobic about talking about being transphobic....Man u make it easy!

@OwlInASack This precludes to what you are saying
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i agree!

@owlinasack for the same reason women don't compete against men currently!

Sports!

@OwlInASack if they altered themselves chemically to become "black" then ud have a point.....But u don't!

@OwlInASack if we had it ur way, no biological woman would EVER get a scholarship for sports, win an Olympic medal, or reach the pinnacle of her sport again......A bunch of Brock Lesnars/Usian Bolts, "in transition," would sign up and easily push them out.

@OwlInASack Sure, gender is not binary.....AND?........U r missing the point, dude!.....WHAT ABOUT THE GIRLS THEY COMPETE AGAINST?????????????????????????????

@OwlInASack I know u would love to make it about trans-phobia, but that's not the issue.