MaryClare StFrancis
1 min readDec 4, 2023

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You continue to assume that trans women chose to be women. It’s not a choice, it’s who they are and always were. It’s not their “fault” and they can’t be excluded just because other people believe they have an advantage when they really don’t. Most professional sports have hormone level requirements and the trans women competing have had to be within that range just like everyone else. That doesn’t sound like an unfair advantage to me. Either way, you simply can’t discriminate and decide women’s sports can only include certain kinds of women. If we do that, then it’s not women’s sports. I guess it needs to be renamed to “cisgender women’s sports.” That would at least be honest. Even if trans women had a huge physical advantage, that’s the nature of sports. Many people win because of some kind of advantage. I have zero patience for people who whine because they weren’t good enough to win.

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MaryClare StFrancis
MaryClare StFrancis

Written by MaryClare StFrancis

I write memoir, nonfiction essays, and poetry

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