For what it's worth, @DaniArgTG I think this is a good and interesting question. I agree with the big majority of people who say no, but I'm grateful to you for having posed it, and a bit sad that you dismiss most of the respondents with slurs. https://twitter.com/DaniArgTG/status/1298226331453468675
I think it helps to separate out the fairness question from the safety question, and I think it's good to separate them out. Your hypothetical goes some way (not all the way) to dealing with the safety question. But it doesn't deal with the fairness question.
This is because the fairness question involves the existence of male advantage. Here, I mean the physiological advantages that come from androgenisation. Trans women who go through puberty have these advantages, even if they are below the average on the metrics you cite.
And women's sport is premised on the idea that male advantage should be excluded - that it's not something that should be brought into play (as it were). So male advantage is unfair, in women's sport, even if, in this case it *may* not be unsafe.
This is why the paper by @FondOfBeetles and @TLexercise is important, because it shows how little male advantage is reduced by T suppression. And without reducing, (strictly, eliminating) male advantage, trans women competing in women's sport cant be fair.
I imagine this is not what you want to hear, but I plan to nick your question when I get around to teaching this stuff. So, thanks.
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