Curried Goats
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These aren't rational counter points, they're strawmen for arguments that don't actually exist.A biological male has physical advantages over a biological female that give him superiority in sports and make competition with women unfair.
A biological male cannot become pregnant.
A biological female cannot impregnate anyone.
A biological male cannot truly think he feels like a woman because he has never been one.
I could go on.
The question isn't whether or not biological males have some physical advantages over biological females. They do. The question is whether trans athletes on testosterone or estrogen have any biological advantages or disadvantages because the advantages males do have aren't due to magic, they're due to the hormones that influence mass and muscle growth.
No one is arguing cismales can get pregnant but transwomen can and do.
Likewise transwomen can and do occasionally impregnate people.
Everyone's sense of self comes from their own biology and their brain. Your sense of self isn't any more valid than anyone else's. The professional medical and scientific community do recognize trans identities as legitimate identities and studies of the brains of trans people have shown a shift in their brain physiology towards the sex they identify as and away from the sex we would normally associate with their chromosomes.