If we allowed biological sex to become one of the elements sport rewards, it would mean rewarding ONLY people with functioning androgen physiology. The champions in EVERY SINGLE event would be male. In fact, the top 3000 (at least) would be. That’s not how it’s meant to be.

So we have this category for females, because the BIOLOGICAL implications of NOT having T contribute to development are so enormous that we realise that without this separate category, sport would not have meaning for that whole group. It doesn’t matter than FP is faster than me

It doesn’t matter that Serena Williams would hammer 90% of men at tennis or that Katie Ledecky swims better than almost everyone I know. What matters is that within a matched group (elite, club, state, high school), the best females have NO chance against identical/matched males

And so if you need to reach down and find inferior males to compare to the very best females within each band, then you’re deliberately distorting the meaning and value of sport in order to make the argument. It’s irrelevant though, because FP isn’t competing against me!

All this said, a biological argument that writes T out of performance determinism in sport needs to end. It has no value for the debate, it’s frankly stupid and/or dishonest. A human rights arguments I get, but we can’t deny biological reality for the sake of a desired position