I agree with you that sports is just really crap for women especially in terms of wanting to be taken seriously. I'd love for the FA to allow men's clubs to sign women players but women's football and more broadly team sport is just ghettoised to an astounding degree. The football culture of England was largely cultivated by women in the eras of the two world wars.
Let's make this very clear. The football culture of England was largely cultivated by females during the war periods. And I doubt with the current focus on dementia in sport, including females prevalence of dementia in football due to headers, that allowing females to play with males is coming with the game being played as it is now.
I am not really sure why you continue to ignore the impact of why males should not be included in any female contact sport because to the increase in risk. At all. Regardless of if they feel they should be included.
I'd actually agree with you again in that I think that disparities in abilities in non contact team sports (hockey, football, netball etc.) would be greatly decreased if only we didn't needlessly gender sports.
Football is a contact sport. I watch my teen play and it is very physical and, headers. Which will be greatly impacted by a ball that has a faster pace due to being kicked by a male. And hockey.... having watched female international level hockey for decades, I am bemused that you would think that there is no contact here. You obviously have not seen those women come off after a game.
And again, in hockey and football males with greater power, speed, different centre of gravity, greater lung and heart so they can go faster for longer, if a male tackles (as in runs into an opponent to take the ball) it will be much more dangerous.
There are mixed sex netball teams already. But again it is unfair for males to compete in female category. In fact, a young adult team of males trounced the female team of the same age group recently in Australia. Even one male on a team is unfair.
You obviously don't like to hear it. Where there is mixed sex teams, that is where a transitioned male should play. Not in any female team.
When I was younger my school actually let kids play whatever sports they wanted. I as a boy at the time played netball during football season and rounders during cricket season and even pre puberty such was the scandal about this that I was not allowed to represent my school in either of these sports as other schools' teams were "girls teams" and apparently a single 10 year old boy was unfair.
The latest research from Australia which had something like 20,000+ primary school kids observed, recorded that boys consistently out perform girls from about 6 (if I remember correctly). So, yes, even back 17 years ago, it would have been known by teachers that it was unfair. It has not changed for centuries, but now we have evidence.
Unless it is a mixed sex children's team, it needs to remain single sex.
I'll however, disagree with your point about reserved places or what have you since that's just how sports teams work. The two main arguments for separate men's and women's competitions is that either there's a disparity in ability or that it'd give both groups better representation.
These arguments are true. Although, I would say separating females out will give the female athletes better representation. But that is just nit picking.
I understand the points but I feel that the latter is too often used to pretend the situation is separate but equal when it is in fact anything but. Take football in England and Wales: The premier league is for men only. If a woman (cis or trans) wanted to play football, they'd be forced to play for a WSL team if they wanted to play at the highest level. Even if they're the next Lionel Messi they'd be forced into a competition where the teams compete in men's training and youth grounds and get paid a pittance with abysmal attendance etc.
Are you saying the premier league will not accept a transitioned male player in a male team? Why? Why won't they allow a transitioned male play football in the premier league in a male team?
Now that is something that you should be fighting. Right there. I am sure you would receive a great deal of support to go and play in the male league.