In your opinion, does the current debate about transgender athletes reflect deeper societal values around fairness and equality?

Let transgender people play on the sports team they identify with

First of all I feel that if you have a passion for a sport or something then gender should not come in the way of your path. But at the same time i also feel that if you were a male at birth you would still have the strength of a man even if you have had a gender change. Then it isn't quite fair to the other female athletes.

i don’t care what gender you think you are whatever your born as is what you league you should be playing in

Transgender people should be considerd illegals and be deported

Yes because scientifically the male body is built to hold more muscle, so if a transgender were to compete against women it would be unfair.

No because its not fair, Men are scientifically stronger than women in every aspect. It is not equal either. Ill use volleyball as an example, men have a higher vert than women , they can jump higher they can hit harder and most of all men are just stronger than women. I do not believe that trans women are women.

its dumb because guys are always gonna be bigger since the have more trustarione

I think they should not be aloud to compete especially if they are a transgendered female because they are biologically stronger.

Transgender people should compete with their original sex because their anatomy is different then the current sex they identify as.

Transgender should compete with their original sex

Yes the fact that we are focusing on athletes gender as opposed to skill level shows systemic transphobia.

If transgender athletes have under gone hormonal transition and puberty of the gender they identify with, then yes, they deserve and should be allowed to participate in sports that align with the gender identity. This fear around men pretending to be women to win at sports is unwarranted. It doesn't happen. And saying transgender women have advantage over cis women because they may have gone through male puberty first before female puberty is simply another way for society to regulate women's bodies, determining how strong or how much testosterone a woman can have, defining limits…  Read more to their bodies instead of realizing that bodies are diverse. I believe society is using "its not fair" for transgender women to participate in women's sports as a way to be transphobic. Because if it were truly about fairness, transgender men would be banned from men's sports. There'd be a whole discussion about the unfairness to men for transgender men to participate in sport with them. But that discussion doesn't exist. Because its not a about fairness or equality. Its fear. And using that fear to discriminate.

It reflects false ideas about the way transitioning works.

I do not think transgender athletes should be able to compete with non trans people.

if your born biological male and you transition to a woman you still have to compete with men because you have the hormones of a man and strength of a man it’s not fair for a biological woman to compete against you

No because men athletes are naturally stronger than male athletes.

Yes, I think that the transgender athlete isn't about the sport, but the right to identify as the opposite sex.

they should not be put into the other gender areas, for it gives them an unfair advantage

Trans athletes should compete in the gender group of what they were when they were born such as trans women in men’s sports etc as it is not fair for the female athletes who would be competing against a biological male

It has more to do with transphobia and an ingrained gender binary than fairness. There are too many natural variations in the skills of cisgender athletes for transgender athletes on hormone therapy to be considered outside of the “norm.”

I think that there should be a seperate league for Transgender Athletes, and this current topic is deffinelty a debate about fairness and equality, I think that however a seperate league could be dissagreed upon, in the long run it would be more effective.

Yes, I think it needs to be reassessed. Yes, trans women are women, and trans men are men. However, in regards to sports, and specifically professional sports, there should be a separate division in which trans athletes can compete fairly with each other.

I do not agree that a transgender female should be able to play on a women’s team, they just will naturally have many physical benefits. However, I also do not believe it would be fair to the individual or to the team to have to play on their cis genders team. I truly don’t know what to think.

I want fairness and equality for all people but if the person in question has an undeniable advantage, due to muscle build and hormones, it is not equal. I think stature and weight / muscle categories need to be implemented if they will be in the same sports as the women. This is only fair.

well, if there are so many transgender athletes, there should be a league for them instead of them playing with afabs and abab so it would be more equal strength wise.

The current debate about transgender athletes highlights a lot of the inequalities in our gender biases and honestly most of these concerns will go away as people are allowed to be who they want to be at younger ages. Honestly we should abolish gender specifications in sport and embrace ability based systems or weight classes.

trans women who are born men shouldn't be aloud to compete with the women.

yes, our country has become a "complain and get what you want" culture. Canada is too soft hearted and focus too much time and money one those complaining and not focusing on the really important issues affecting the majority

People are too concerned with transgender individuals. They are people who want to live their life as happily and authentically as possible. There is too much bigotry and fear mongering towards transgender people that has only increased with this “athletics” discussion. Sure maybe sometimes transgender people may have “biological advantages”, but so do numerous cisgendered athletes and that’s just life. Sometimes people are gonna be better at things than you and you’re just gonna have to get over it. You don’t have the right take away opportunities from people because you feel hard done by.

unfair for female because a trans male person doing better than they do

I think that it is kind of a useless issue. I think that if someone wants to play a sport they should no matter gender, age, or whatever.