I swear, Metaphor, you're like the polar opposite of a dogmatic trans activist. There are some exceptions, sure, but in the real world, the vast, overwhelming majority of adult women don't actually care if someone is biologically a female when they're in the locker room - they care about whether or not that person ***looks*** more or less like a woman.
Emily, you do not seem to be aware of what trans activists want. They want any biological male,
no matter what he looks like, no matter what surgeries he has or hasn't had, no matter what he does or does not do to present as female or feminine, to use the women's toilets, and you are labelled a transphobe for rejecting that notion.
I also suspect you know that most trans women d
o not pass. I am gay and I've seen a lot of men in drag who are very actively trying to give the illusion of womanhood for a brief period of time, but their face and shoulders and hands and height and hips and feet and any other number of things make the illusion incomplete.
I've known a lesbian who was so butch that she wore m
en's suits to work. Not a masculine cut woman's pantsuit. A man's suit. And, as butch as she made herself, she very clearly was a biological woman.
Trans activists are not going to let you gatekeep the people who use toilets.
The only time the biology comes into play would be with the shock of finding someone who ***looks*** like a woman, but then walks around naked with a twig and giggle-berries. And really, all that takes is a teensy bit of discretion on the part of the transwoman, and nobody is ever going to notice.
Trans activists don't want trans women to have to alter their behavior. They want trans women to be able to get their lady dick out and proud. (Note how the left lost its mind when Donald Trump bragged about going backstage during Miss World pageants and seeing women in various states of undress. If Donald had instead come out as a trans woman first, they'd have nothing to bleat about).
High school locker rooms get a bit more complicated, largely due to raging psychotic hormones being in the mix.
Not just high school locker rooms. Sex segregated accommodation on camping trips and school excursions as well.
I went on an overnight school excursion in Year 6. I sure as fuck would not want to have shared my accommodation with a biological female girl who wants to be regarded as a boy. But I guess I was a transphobe at 11, too.
Prisons become a little bit more complicated, because it introduces a penis into a space that does not otherwise have penises in it... which also introduces an opportunity for rape that didn't before exist. There've been a few cases of intact transwomen being moved to the female prison by request, who then raped other women prisoners. Maybe that's an exception and they're a real rarity... but it still introduces a risk that didn't previously exist. But transwomen in male prisons get raped and abused at a high rate, so I don't have a good solution.
The solution isn't to endanger female prisoners by having biological males in their prison, is it?
The only place where biological maleness really is a significant issue is when it comes to sports. And that's because biology doesn't give a fuck about our feelings. Male bodies are, quite simply, larger, stronger, with greater lung capacity, and higher bone density. Male hips are shaped differently, their leg alignment is different, and they have differences in muscle and tendon attachment points that all contribute to them being faster, stronger, and having greater endurance than women. Reducing testosterone can mitigate many of those differences, but not all of them. Hormone suppression in males will reduce muscle mass, increase and redistribute fat, and alter lung capacity some. It's not a perfect solution, but it's enough to at least retain a degree of competitiveness in women's sports. And when it comes to sports, whether or not a penis is present is simply not an issue at all.
No. No body that has undergone a male puberty can ever be made to be 'fair' in sex-segregated sports. Even if a body has not undergone a male puberty, men don't experience the hormone cycle that women do, even when they attempt to ape the internal chemistry of a woman by taking hormones.
And note that trans activists don't want rules about testosterone levels. They want
gender identification alone.