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Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Transwomen are male, women are female - "even" women with intersex conditions, funnily enough.

Sex isn't assigned at birth; it's acknowledged or recorded at birth, but biological realities can't be assigned.

Taking a purely scientific/logical standpoint this is true but I also understand why it's difficult for transgender people.

Sex is a physical descriptor, gender is a sociological construct, and on a scientific level both are totally separate and don't even need to conflict - all it takes to accept transgenderism is to accept that a woman (gender) can be male (biology) and vice versa, but a male cannot become female (biologically). Again though, I appreciate that this is a very sensitive and difficult reality for transpeople.

Funnily enough it would actually be a path to solving the sports problem; just tier the sports leagues as male and female rather than men and women. Though then you do run into a whole host of other problems when it comes to hormone replacement (transmen need a lot of HRT that is banned in female sorts for obvious reasons, and transwomen who have been taking female hormones will, frankly, very quickly become unable to compete with men, including transmen).