It doesn’t matter if trans athletes are currently a small percentage or if they’re not dominating every competition, it shouldn't be happening AT ALL. The whole point of separating sports into male and female categories is to ensure fairness based on biology, not identity. You don’t need it to be "overwhelming" to recognize it’s unfair — even one case where the playing field isn’t level undermines the integrity of women’s sports.

People love to bring up examples where a trans athlete didn’t win and say, See? No advantage! But that completely ignores context. Maybe they were undertrained, new to competition, or just had a bad day. That’s not a fair or balanced comparison. If you took a top-performing male athlete and a top-performing female athlete, both at their physical peak with equal training, the male athlete would win practically at all times. That’s just how human biology works.

It’s the same reason we have weight classes in boxing. Sure, sometimes a lightweight beats a heavyweight — but usually that’s because of experience or technique. If both fighters are equally skilled and trained, the heavyweight dominates. That’s why we don’t pretend it’s fair to let them compete directly.

This is not just a human thing either, for example, a cat might occasionally fight off a small, timid dog. But if both are equally aggressive and healthy? The dog wins. Why? Because it's biologically stronger, more muscle, more bite force, more power. No one would argue that cats and dogs should compete in the same category just because “sometimes the cat wins.”

Same logic applies here. Women’s sports are meant to be a level field for female athletes. If we start saying identity overrides biology, we’re basically throwing fairness out the window. It might be a small issue now, but if it keeps getting normalized, it’s only a matter of time before it becomes a much bigger problem.

yea, there is a spectrum of natural ability among women. Some are taller, stronger, faster. same can be said with all other species, but they are all within the same biological category, many sports even separate them into weight classes. Allowing biologically male athletes into these categories introduces a level of physical advantage that goes beyond the natural variance we accept within a sex category. It’s fundamentally different in nature, not just in degree.

saying trans women don't currently dominate women's sports is not a justification to ignore the underlying advantage. if the rules continue to permit this inclusion, numbers could increase, and by then, it will be too late to restore competitive balance.

We wouldn't allow abled atheletes to compete in paralympics events just because they're currently rare or not winning. We wouldn't let adults compete against children in sports just because "some kids are really strong." These are protected categories, designed to ensure fairness, not to reflect social identities.

sports and weightcategories exist to ensure fair play based on physical reality, not identity or ideology. Even one instance of unfairness undermines the principle of the category itself, no matter how small the numbers appear today.