The transgender community such as LGBTQIA and TransEquality et al, should not be fighting for equal status for their athletes in sports in terms of getting them to compete with their new male or female counterparts.

The transgender community such as LGBTQIA and TransEquality et al, should not be fighting for equal status for their athletes in sports in terms of getting them to compete with their new male or female counterparts. It still breeds a level of unfairness that you’re fighting against. You need a new event or category with mixed trans people given the complexity of their biology. 

Recently, Swimming champion Michael Phelps recently called the controversy around Lia Thomas, the record-setting transgender University of Pennsylvania swimmer, “very complicated” and stressed the need for a “level playing field” in swimming.

Playing on the women’s team this season after three years competing as a male, Thomas has set pool, program, and meet records, 38 seconds ahead of the next-closest female Penn swimmer in one event. 

Phelps’s commented on the issue during an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour Saying “I think this leads back to the organizing committees again….Because it has to be a level playing field. That’s something that we all need. Because that’s what sports are. For me, I don’t know where this is going to go. I don’t know what’s going to happen…. sports should all be played on an even playing field.”

According to the National Review “NCAA rules currently permit Thomas to compete on the women’s team. The guidelines are focused primarily on hormone treatments and read: “A trans female (MTF) student-athlete being treated with testosterone suppression medication for Gender Identity Disorder or gender dysphoria and/or Transsexualism, for the purposes of NCAA competition may continue to compete on a men’s team but may not compete on a women’s team without changing it to a mixed team status until completing one calendar year of testosterone suppression treatment….They do not take bone density, accumulated muscle mass, or other considerations into account,” (Lia Thomas: Asked about Transgender Swimmer, Michael Phelps Calls for 'Level Playing Field' | National Review) which also still provides an unfair advantage to this group of competitors. 

The fact is that Lia was a male athlete who was mediocre at best until she switched her gender and started competing with women who have no chance against her and has even set a meet and program record after just one race. Furthermore, there has been several resignations over this issue. Three weeks ago a senior US official quit her office regarding Lia Thomas, saying that allowing her [as a transgender athlete with her unfair advantages] to compete is destroying swimming as a sport (See Joshua Rhett, Article “Grossly unfair’: USA Swimming official quits over transgender swimmer,” in the NY Post, December 25, 2021.)

Moreover, the rules as it it stands in swimming allows for a dangerous strategy that parents have been speaking out against indirectly(see Swim Parents Speak Out As Penn Transgender Swimmer Lia Thomas Is Beaten By Yale's Transgender Swimmer – OutKick). If boys have dreams of breaking records and excelling as an athlete but is unable to do so against their gender, they could change their sex and compete against girls who are naturally weaker and therefore realise their dreams of breaking records and excelling in sports, which is what Lia may have done, as she went from losing against her male counterparts when she was male and now is competitive as a female athlete against her female rivals. Lia is not to be blamed, as she took advantage of NCAA rules that does not negate that strategy or practice; if fact if anything it encourages it, so that European trans athletes would not have an advantage over American Athletes. 

Therefore, I would recommend to the trans world and those who administer and organize sports, that Instead of having transgender males (males who have changed their sex from females) compete with females we should fight to create a trans male and trans female category in sport so as to level the playing field. For you’re being hypocritical to protect trans people rights…

Without ignoring the implications of having trans males in sports compete with women who are still biologically weaker. Testosterone suppression is not the only answer; but having equal category for sexes based on their prowess must never be ruled out. 

It’s unfair for men who are now women who still have their masculine strength and prowess to compete with other women who do not have such historical and biological advantage. Unless we create such an event for equal status where all trans compete with each other. 

But who attend those games? Where will the support come from? And so the trans world would rather fight to compete in a sport where they will have an u fair competitive advantage which ultimately contradicts and dilute their pure motive of equality and justice.