malarko
I see two big problems with the issue as currently framed by trans activists:
(1) "It's only a few people, it doesn't matter." Yes, it does matter. Take it to its absurdest possible conclusion. "Most soccer teams aren't putting an elephant bigger than the entire goal in at goalie, to just sit there and make it impossible to score, so who cares if one team decided to do it?" Things are either fair or they aren't, and the numbers of incidents don't determine whether it's cheating or not, something is either cheating or it isn't. Prove to us that transwomen in women's sports is far/not cheating, don't try to get out of it by citing the numbers.
(2) "It doesn't matter because this is a lower level competition." See above -- it's either cheating or it isn't. We've seen one trans weightlifter in the Olympics who could qualify as a "woman" but not a man. We've had a D1 NCAA swim champ under the same conditions. Clearly, dismissals about the level of the competition are in bad faith anyway, but even if they weren't, who is the arbiter of when the level is too high to allow trans competitors? And why should, say, teenage girls trying to make their varsity squad have to take one for the trans movement, but not, say, pro soccer playing women, or wherever you demand the line be drawn? I'd almost think it made sense the other way: highly trained professional athletes should be expected to compete with trans competitors who have serious advantages, but NOT high schoolers and community hobbyists. Prove to us that transwomen in women's sports is far/not cheating, don't try to get out of it by citing the level of competition.
Ultimately, activists who reach for either of the above arguments are performing a dodge typical of illiberals of all stripes: they are trying to avoid having to answer the tough questions by insisting that they don't have to. It's the same as when a race activist says she doesn't have to answer a white guy's criticism because the white guy can't "center himself" in this conversation: the race activist has granted herself the convenient privilege of not having to answer the criticism. The gender activists do the same thing: they know they cannot prove that transwomen in women's sports don't have a serious advantage, nor can they prove that transwomen are women in the sense that word is used to define a separate, protected category of sport. So they use one of the two dodges illustrated above.