Interesting from Eric Vilain here, who works with various sports feds and advocates for inclusion of transowmen in female cats.
“It is not about making everybody biologically equal, and I think that is a common misconception when we start talking about transgender athletes."
“It is not about making everybody biologically equal, and I think that is a common misconception when we start talking about transgender athletes."
“People want transgender [females] to be physiologically identical to [born] females, and if they’re not, it’s unfair.
That is not possible.”
That is not possible.”
Dr. Vilain referenced the structure of the pelvis and the mass of certain muscle groups as anatomical differences between the male and female body that will always be somewhat different.
But achieving total equality is not the point, Dr. Vilain said.
But achieving total equality is not the point, Dr. Vilain said.
The purpose of the NCAA’s rules is to, in a sense, shift the transgender female athlete’s muscle mass and physiology away from that of the average male. The goal is to create a pathway to include the transgender athlete, not create total equality.
“Can you turn a man’s body into a woman’s body? The short answer is ‘no,” Vilain said. “I think we need to move past that idea completely.”
From: velonews.com/news/commentar…
From: velonews.com/news/commentar…
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