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Originally posted by True_Moose:
I wonder if it's really fair if a man gets really bulked up, to the point he can compete in the Olympics, and then has a sex change.
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But then you're assuming a man would undergo a sex change for such a shallow reason, and hence completely missing the point of it. People get sex changes because they feel deeply unhappy in their own bodies, because the gender they were born with feels inherently wrong to them, because they are men/women trapped in women's/men's bodies respectively. I doubt any of them would have competing in the Olympics foremost on their minds when they decided to undergo surgery/hormonal treatment. In fact, a man who feels he really was supposed to be a woman and considers a sex change would NEVER "bulk up" - he'd resent his masculinity and would definitely not try to increase it by training his muscles.
For the rest I'm sort of with you - I don't have moral issues with it, but there may be fair play issues. But then again, muscle/build is not all there is to being successful in sports: there's also dedication, talent, training. So in that sense a post-sex change man does not have a headstart per se.