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…
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Response rates from 7k Sweden voters.
41% Yes |
59% No |
30% Yes |
52% 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 |
0% No, create a separate category for transgender athletes to compete against each other |
Trend of support over time for each answer from 7k Sweden voters.
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Unique answers from Sweden voters whose views went beyond the provided options.
@9SM4XHX3mos3MO
Depends on if the person switched their sex from "sex at birth" to another sex or if there is an anomaly such as a genetic mutation that shows the person's phenotype from their genotype.
@9FGWF671yr1Y
I am avidly disinterested in sports and so I do not care.
@9FCKZZT1yr1Y
Transgender people can all compete in the male category, and biological females who are not transgender have their own
@9DB6DGM1yr1Y
Depends on potential advantage in each sport and hormone levels of the individual
@9D7JDWD1yr1Y
Gender shouldn't matter in sports. Aka play mixed. If this means that most athletes at the top are men then so be it.
@9BWLHYX2yrs2Y
Trans people should compete with other trans people.
@95BZ95D2yrs2Y
Maybe change the way sports competition are organized
@94K74C72yrs2Y
We should abolish gender-based competition in sports. Just use body height/weight/bmi to sort people into weight classes or whatever.
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