Seems there’s another bill making it’s way through the congress to ban transgender women from participating in female sports. I think I feel as conflicted as everyone else about this.

On the one hand, it is neither politically incorrect nor factually wrong to say that women tend to be less athletic than men. Because sports generally promotes health and physical fitness, we definitely want to encourage females to participate—for their own good as it is for our male’s own good. The biology is such that females may lack in strength but become more useful in other matter using their bodies. The enhancement of their peak or mean physical performance has traditionally not had the highest priority in our society.

Today we find that young women, when properly motivated are quite capable in modern society: anything from politics to business to science to art, they can do all that just fine. This happened not because they ran a mile and beat a man, this happened because society made room for them to grow into those fields. As our civilization advance, we find that we redefined the role of gender to less correlate with role in society.

However, as biology would have it, the gender does still correlate strongly with role in family and reproduction. And I see absolutely no reason to change that. Gay men/women can try hard to reproduce homosexually and eventually succeed, thus advancing out humanity. But that seems so low priority as trying to fly to Mars, IMHO.

But transgender people are people too, and deserve the same motivation to strive for physical fitness as anyone else. So they definitely should be included.

How about this: why don’t we have competition organizations be separate from rewards organizations. The competition organization run sports competitions in a unified manor, completely ignoring sex. There will be one 800m medley for any composition of teams. (Each country may choose to send several teams of their own design). All that qualified compete until a fair ranking can be determined.

The awards organizations, of which there may be several, will then award medal based on results of the competition. Maybe “The Original Olympic Medal” is one awards organization, and “Free Identity Medal” is another organization. They aggregate the performances (seeing as how data science is so well understood now days) and determine to whom their gold, silver bronze, or maybe other material medals will be awarded to.

So, for example you could have a private award organization that awards only to transgenders. Another that recognize self-identified gender. One that only awards to natural born dwarves, etc. etc. many ways to slice and dice the data. The ultimate goal, here, is for money and prestige to have more distinguishing expressions. To empower these inbuilt mechanisms to advance our society.