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Message: [QUOTE="Puppy Love, post: 2751726, member: 8101"] Oh man, this subject really makes me crazy. As a woman who is old enough to remember when women as a group had very few opportunities at all, I see this as a step backwards in women's rights. It is well documented scientifically that testosterone provides an athletic advantage. It doesn't take science to see that boys grow bigger, faster and stronger once puberty hits. Further, the advantage in size and strength is greater by the time they are seniors than it was as freshman. This is at the same time that most biological girls are going through the changes of breast growth, menstual periods and changes in body fat composition. For me, this isn't about whether either biological boy (one of whom who also participated on a boys team this year) should be able to compete. It is about the right of the young women in the state to have fair athletic competition. It baffles me that adults can say to them 'your rights matter less than someone else's'. It is wrong to tell them to compete in races where they will have very little chance of ever winning. This isn't a hypothetical argument. Biological girls (young women) are being hurt. How long before they start saying 'I am not going to participate because it doesn't matter how hard I work.'? I think that the only way that this is resolved fairly is to either not allow the biological boys to compete unless they are on medication to reduce testosterone (similar to the NCAA) or to establish a time handicap that erases the advantage testosterone provides. It doesn't help the transgendered when they get an artificial sense of victory created by winning a race that clearly isn't fair. Right now, no one wins. [/QUOTE]

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