alt Hacker NewsThe classification is based on sex, expressly due to the material differences between the sexes.
It is not and has never been rooted in any sort of sociological concept of gender as an independent category from one’s sex.
The classification is based on sex, expressly due to the material differences between the sexes.
It is not and has never been rooted in any sort of sociological concept of gender as an independent category from one’s sex.
The material difference between people we bar and do not bar is not large enough to constitute a difference against competing with people we assign within the same sex group [1][2][3]. This might feel counterintuitive, but please consider that trans people who have medically transitioned are not as different from cis people of the same gender than you expect. Hormones do a lot. [1] https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2026/01/22/bjsports-2025-... [2]https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2024/04/10/bjsports-2023-... [3] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10641525/