Ooh! That all sounds very reasonable! Doesn't it?
Feminizing hormones reduce that gap. How much of a gap remains in sports with weight classes? So... men are being allowed to compete BEFORE any evidence has been collated. Women have to put up wth competing against men until more data is collected that shows the same as has been known for a century! THAT is the problem. Also current data shows that any hormone therapy that will have a larger impact, positive or negative, will also have some serious health implications.
To me, that is a relevant question to be asked before excluding transwomen and just accepting that women should exclude themselves from all physical matters in the same way we exclude children. To me that's a question that should be answered before any woman is put in harm's way! Your use of accepting is intersting. We should acknowledge that women have a physical disadvantage in sport. There is no shame in the reality of a female body!
Fallon Fox has been beaten by a biological woman who knew she was fighting transwoman and accepted the fight under those circumstances. For the 4th time, I think. Nobody is saying that no women can beat a male in any sport. REALLY nobody is!
What is being said is that any male competing in a female sport removes a woman. Prevents a woman from continuing uninterrupted along her career path.Any male in a female sport will prevent women from carrying on, at any level. Taking college places, training places, funding and medals. Three men in one sport could mean that female records, championships are held by men.
As a biologist you can't argue against that without deferring to the idea that an innate feeling trumps science!