Alright. I'm getting kind of tired of this thread, tbh. "Accept a transwoman as a woman... almost there, bud!" I mean, duh. Hence my language of referring to Gallagher as a woman, and consistently appealing to inclusiveness, while wallowing in the complexity of the opposition. Which is something that everyone will have to continue to reckon with and break down in order to make gains over the presence of trans people in all different types of community. I do also disagree with Taylor's position.
Anyways, I found a pretty good interview conducted by sports writer Dave Zirin, who does a pretty amazing job at covering the intersection between sports and politics. He interviews a transgender Olympian on the struggles of trans-peoples in sports. As someone still learning, he does a pretty good job at pointing out the lay-of-the-land in terms of the enduring struggle trans people face, and have faced. He makes reference to what he sees as a cheap argument of "inclusivity vs fairness", which I admittedly thought was important (and probably still has some merit; but maybe easier to judge somehow on a case by case basis), but he loosely refers to statistics that reveal that trans people in sports don't do much better than their cisgender counterparts (the article didn't name or link to said data, but I'll take their word for it). I read somewhere else that trans men have some success in sports as well, which is cool. I think he hits the nail on the head pretty well with what I think some of you were attempting to do, and not just simply urging acceptance. It's a good read. I think we can all learn from it.
My posts were partly just about pointing out the impasse people have over the physiological parameters, and wondering how to get past it. I think everyone is more worried about the social parameters behind it, which is understandable, as I also want everyone to feel safe and included. I mean it's a complex and sensitive issue, so... yeah.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/interview-chris-mosier/