I have never yet had an answer to what other categories people from outside the protected group accessing the category would be acceptable.
Never has any poster come back and said they are comfortable for a :
26 year old competing with under 12 year olds, or with 85 year olds in their protected age groups.
Or a fully sighted person competing with people with partial or no sight.
Or a professional coming back and competing in the novice category.
Or an electric assisted bike competing in the Tour de France.
Yet, miraculously, they want males with in performance limiting drugs and making cosmetic decisions about their body shape to compete with women. Like women are just chemically performance restrained males!
Forgetting that if a woman took drugs to limit performance and to train only in ways to enhance their body’s shape and not to peak performance, that those women have no where to ‘play down’ to, unless the under 12s accept them!
These are males who because of a decision to adopt a gender that is ‘woman’ get to compete. No other male athletes who have testosterone suppressed for other health issues or take other performance limiting drugs, yet are fully able athletes, get to compete and win against women in the female category.
Why are these male people different from other male athletes who have to make life saving medical decisions about taking medication that removes them from sport. Either because their performance is limited OR because the drugs they need are banned for performance enhancing capabilities.
It never made sense except when you understand this is only about validation. Because ‘equality’ would have these male trans people compared with all other males with performance limiting medication. NOT with female athletes.
It has always been arse about, but it was allowed because of pseudoscience (before the raft of studies done) and now it is based on the modern interpretation of ‘inclusion’. It should never have been allowed.