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this isn't lack of acceptance wrote:
No one is suggesting that transgender athletes should be banned from competing. People are suggesting that classifications should be based on sex rather than gender. Requiring someone to compete as a male because their sex is male is not equivalent to banning them from competition.
It absolutely does ban transgender athletes. Trans men with XX chromosomes and receiving hormone therapy are banned from women's competition. They are also banned from men's because of the lack of a Y chromosome.
What you say is not true.
In most jurisdictions in the US, XX athletes taking exogenous T would be barred from female scholastic & other sports because taking T is against long-established anti-doping rules. But in the US in recent years, a number of XX athletes taking T coz they "identity as" the opposite sex have been allowed to participate in boy's/men's sports.
These athletes haven't made headlines the way XY athletes competing in female sports have because even on high-dose exogenous T, XX athletes do not perform at a level comparable to XY athletes. They gain advantages compared to other XX athletes, but not so much advantage as to put them on equal footing with - or pose a competitive threat to - XY athletes.
There was a case in Texas a few years ago where HS wrestler Mack Beggs, a female who "identifies a" male, was not allowed to compete in boys' wrestling, and so competed against - and trounced - all the girls in the state whilst taking T. But what happened in the Beggs case is not the norm in most states today. At Life University in Georgia, Beggs has been on the male wrestling roster since enrolling in 2018. However, there is no record that Beggs never has competed in a male meet.
The larger issue here is your claim that XX athletes are banned from men's sports "because they lack a Y chromosome." This suggests you think that sex chromosome testing proving possession of a Y chromosome - or more specifically the SRY gene that's usually on the Y and is now known to be what determines which of the two sex-development pathways a human zygote/embryo/fetus/person will go down - is required to participate in "men's" or "boys'" sports. But this is not and never has been the case in any sport , in any division or at any level, whether in school sports or sports outside of school. Not in the US, nor internationally.
Sex chromosome testing was only a requirement to determine eligibility to participate in elite level women's international sports from late 1967 through the mid-1990s, when after being challenged and sued by XY DSD athletes competing in female sports the IAFF and IOC backed off & abandoned mandatory buccal swab sex chromosome testing of athletes competing as females entirely. Which opened the door for many countries to enter an unusually high number of XY DSD athletes in women's elite competition in the ensuing years.
Like most parents, I had to provide my kids' birth certificates and other documentation, such as proof of address and medical forms signed by a licensed HCP, when enrolling them in school and registering them for various sports programs. But no one ever asked to to prove they have - or don't have - a Y chromosome. In fact, no one ever inquired if they'd ever undergone sex chromosome testing at all, be it in utero or afterwards.