I think the reality of today's world makes male and female surprisingly tricky ways to define the complex combination of socialisation and physiological factors at play.
No. It really isn’t.
It remains rather simple actually.
Because women ONLY actually share the fact that they are the sexual class that has a body formed around the production of large gametes, regardless of whether the production of said gametes occurs for whatever reason.
The entire body is coded with cells that are designed for this specific purpose.
Women’s millennia of oppression is due their bodies being formed around this purpose. It forms the basis of sexist discrimination.
Puberty blockers and cosmetic changes will never remove the formation of the pelvis that will mean a male will have a certain way of walking. As a person with sight difficulties, I have discovered my brain picks up things like this and filters people accurately into male and female. Because I cannot see the clothing clearly, or the hair style at a certain distance but once they come into focus, I already have resolved which sex.
The same for faces. The brow, the ratios of the facial structure. Unless they have been changed artificially, this will not be removed by blocking puberty or CSH. And sometimes hand size.
I think that when it is important to someone’s life to believe they fully ‘pass’, they must find it impossible to hear differently. That something will have given them away and that females have been programmed through socialisation to cover fear and consternation to be imperceptible to males.
And again, why do males not understand that even after ‘getting away’ with accessing female spaces, immense harm can be caused by women realising that this person who they throught was female, is male. But their sense of security, their confidence in that space being safe for them, has been destroyed. Simply because someone felt it was their right to breach that boundary because of gender.
And getting back to those bodies formations as females, there are now extensive studies that show that even years of CSH do not remove the advantages that come from having a body formed around the production of small gametes and generally has produced male levels of testosterone during the course of their life.
Even a partial male puberty will deliver these advantages. Again, pelvis configuration, skeletal proportions (leverage for instance), muscle type, heart and lung size, oxygen access, is just a few that are not affected. And that muscle mass you mentioned, even now you will likely be stronger than the average female of your age group. Grip strength doesn’t seem to be affected. Nor does skull strength, nor the robustness of your brain’s nerve fibres meaning your brain will withstand trauma better than a female. And now they even realize that males have faster brain reaction to stimulus.
And let us not forget, the affects of menstruation on female athletes. Males who do not have menstruation issues will always have an advantage. The female body even can have greater propensity to have ligament damage during specific times of the cycle. Something that a male will never have to consider.
So, no. A male, even with partial virtualization will have advantages. I cannot see how anyone, once they understand this, can suggest a case by case scenario where an athletes entire body is scanned and modeled to assess whether there is unfair advantage. How will this work? exactly?
Meanwhile, we have the OIC now acknowledging that this is the case. Yet determined to follow the ‘we’ll be inclusive anyway’ model.
And those very advantages means that females really do understand who is male, despite extensive work to change that male body.
my answer is #nothankyou.