Safety and Fairness in Women’s Sport
Many detransitioned women describe how their own time on testosterone made them acutely aware of male physical advantages. “it is dangerous and could be fatal for an amab person to compete in contact sports with afab people… women have been struggling and fighting for hundreds of years to get single-sex spaces” – KindAddition source [citation:56d1f744-8192-4f6c-8a06-5d506e5335f6]. Their lived experience convinces them that keeping a protected female category is not exclusionary; it is a safeguard for fair play and physical safety.

Hormone Use as Performance-Enhancing
Because they once injected testosterone themselves, detransitioners often equate cross-sex hormones with doping. “trans people who are taking hormones should be banned from professional sports period… hormones are considered doping” – Equivalent-Cow-6122 source [citation:13c5b839-9fe8-49b2-a238-228dd2928a1c]. This personal history leads them to argue that eligibility rules must treat exogenous hormones the same way sport already treats other performance-enhancing substances.

Practical Ways to Include Everyone
Rather than erasing women’s divisions, the contributors propose adding parallel options. “There’s an open division and a female division… it’s not as complicated as the activists make it out to be” – Eyes-9 source [citation:beff3afb-7c64-4a8d-85e6-126f139ddba0]. Others suggest a third, all-gender league or carefully calculated weight-class offsets so trans and intersex athletes can still compete without displacing women.

Ethics and Personal Responsibility
Several writers frame the question as a moral one: if you know you have an unfair edge, do you use it? “If you knew in your heart that you maintained an unfair advantage… would your moral values dictate you to step back because you knew it would be cheating?” – Liquid_Fire__ source [citation:0aafacc4-de12-4c03-8949-52e2ec962836]. Their detransition journey taught them that integrity sometimes means choosing not to compete rather than risk harming others.

Conclusion
The stories show that protecting women’s sport and including trans athletes are not mutually exclusive. By keeping a clear female category and adding open or mixed divisions, sport can honor both safety and inclusion. The path forward lies in honest conversation, fair rules, and the courage to value every athlete’s well-being over ideology.