In 2016 the International Olympic committee ruled that transgender athletes can compete in the Olympics without undergoing sex reassignment surgery. In 2018 the International Association of Athletics Federations, track’s governing body, ruled that women who have more than 5 nano-mols per liter of testosterone in their blood—like South African sprinter and Olympic gold medalist Caster Semenya—must either compete against men, or take medication to reduce their natural testosterone levels. The IAAF stated that women in the five-plus category have a “difference of sexual…
Read more42% Yes |
58% No |
31% Yes |
51% No |
11% Yes, but only if their hormone levels are equivalent to those in the gender category in which they compete |
7% No, athletes should compete based on the biological sex that is listed on their birth certificate |
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Unique answers from Sweden users whose views extended beyond the provided choices.
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I am avidly disinterested in sports and so I do not care.
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Transgender people can all compete in the male category, and biological females who are not transgender have their own
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Depends on potential advantage in each sport and hormone levels of the individual
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Gender shouldn't matter in sports. Aka play mixed. If this means that most athletes at the top are men then so be it.
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Should obviously be up to the sports organisations. So no national ban.
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Trans people should compete with other trans people.
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