To clarify, the pictured poster Caroline Kwan is an ally, not a TERF. The TERFs referred to in the title are the ones ‘protecting a very specific idea of what a woman is’
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i mean, yeah as far as test goes, it's a PED, but at the end of the day, does it really matter significantly? I'm not sure.
Sometimes people have test so high it's literally impossible to measure, there's no real reason women can't also experience high test either, though high test is also arguably bad.
Sure they might be physically bigger, but the hard to answer question here is if it's any more significant than your average olympic athlete. With how prevalent trans people are (not very) and how common it would be for those trans people to be athletes (even less likely) i'm not sure it's a huge concern or even a significant consideration.
At the end of the day, you're already sampling for the most unusual, and weirdly built people, that's why it's the olympics. Excluding trans people from that seems like it might be a bit more redundant than necessary.
If it's a real concern, proper class weighting would help, that's a valid strategy, but another strategy is to simply have multiple medal winning categories.