Curried Goats
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Great, so your answer is testosterone. Now what do you imagine hormone blockers are blocking?Do I need to go through it?
Men and woman have different sex characteristics.
From Wikipedia:
The increased secretion of testosterone from the testes during puberty causes the male secondary sexual characteristics to be manifested.[23] Testosterone directly increases size and mass of muscles, vocal cords, and bones, deepening of the voice, and changing the shape of the face and skeleton.[1] Converted into DHT in the skin, it accelerates growth of androgen-responsive facial and body hair but may slow and eventually stop the growth of head hair.[citation needed] Taller stature is largely a result of later puberty and slower epiphyseal fusion
I’m a powerlifter. I’m stronger than the vast majority of men, but there’s obviously a slew of male powerlifters stronger than I am.
On the other hand, I’m very confident that I am stronger than the strongest biological woman in the world, even though there’s obviously many women out there who’ve dedicated more of their lives to the sport than I have. (And please don’t drag out some juiced up ex Soviet female lifter who was born with a Y chromosome. That just proves my point)
My sex gives me an advantage they can never have.
Therefore, me competing in powerlifting against other men equals fair. Me saying I identify as a woman and competing against women equals unfair.
It’s really that simple.