I don’t object to a biological woman playing sport in a team for biological women.
I do object to the utter hypocrisy of gender ideologues who insist TWAW and TMAM and it’s only your gender identity that matters, having no problem with - in fact celebrating - someone who no longer identifies as a woman continuing to play on a team for women.
Either gender identity trumps all, or sex matters. But they’re having their cake and eating it with a cherry-identifying radish on top.
I agree.
The women's category was set up for female athletes on the basis of sex, because of the clearly observed performance differences between male and female bodies. As long as Quinn isn't taking any banned drugs then they should be in the female category because they are female.
Gender, gender identity, gender expression etc have no bearing on biology and are totally irrelevant to sports performance. Sex is the parameter that matters, which is why male people of any identity should be in the male category and female people of any identity should be in the female category.
If some people want to change (or add) categories based on gender then we need to apply that to all athletes, instead of having these ridiculous hybrid categories where some athletes are included based on sex only (with no declaration of gender identity needed), and others are included in the same category based on gender identity only, even when their sex is different to their competitors.
Quinn is competing in a category for biologically female people with other biologically female people. Quinn identifies as non-binary. We have no idea how the other females in the category identify because it's irrelevent, as is Quinn's identity. This is fair as they are all female and nobody is taking banned substances.
Hubbard, on the other hand, was competing in a category based on gender identity. So Hubbard is included based on a declaration of gender identity that none of the other athletes needed to make to be included. The other competitors sex is female. We have no idea if the rest of the competitors have the same gender identity as Hubbard. So is this a category for biologically female people - no. Is it a category for people of any sex but with the gender identity of 'woman' - no. This is unfair, illogical and makes a mockery of the idea of fair competition.