Obviously this won’t work for all sports, but things like football, track, soccer, it would allow for de-gendered team, even allowing athletes with the skills but not the genetically-endowed physical attributes to have a place to play.

Note: I know very little about sports and being on a sports team, so please point out anything that doesn’t make sense.

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    A high T woman is 70 ng/dL and that already is starting to imply some sort of adrenal tumor or polycystic ovary syndrome. The normal range is a lot closer to 20~30

    A low T man is ~250 ng/dL and average is around 400~500 ng/dL

    A woman will not have T levels similar to men because they don’t have testicles. Even the highest T females compared to lowest T men.

    The only time this would be true is in 1 in 10 million cases. If that’s your whole argument, then OK. It is theoretically possible if the woman has an adrenal tumor and the man is effectively castrated.

    But for virtually all other cases this simply cannot happen due to human physiology.

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      What do you not understand about 18-22?

      Which, if you haven’t noticed, is still the age range of a lot of Olympians and elite athletes.

      Hell, some sports average under 18.

      It’s like you didn’t even read my comment. You’re just fucking insisting everything fits in your nice little division of two piles and no one else can exist.

      It’s the same line of thinking as transphobes…

      And I have no desire to ever interact with people stuck in that thinking. And immediately regret trying to help you understand the finer points.

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        No I don’t understand what you mean about 18-22. What difference does that make?

        18-22 is a fully sexually mature adult. The testicles and ovaries are already functional by 14 in overwhelming majority of the population.

        And yes I’m putting everything into two piles. Either you have testicles or you don’t. If you have functioning testicles, you will always have more T than someone who doesn’t.