Can the Best Policy for Gender-Bending Athletes Be Found In a Connecticut High S

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Can the Best Policy for Gender-Bending Athletes Be Found In a Connecticut High School?

http://www.queerty.com/can-the-best-policy-for-gender-bending-athletes-be-found-in-a-connecticut-high-school-20091124/

Does a local Connecticut high school have a more nuanced policy about transgender athletes than the International Association of Athletic Federations? For all the talk about treating gender-nonconforming sports stars like Caster Semenya fairly, we've yet to hear a real solution about how to avoid discriminating against trans athletes while still letting them compete. Did this gay marriage-friendly New England state found a solution?

To understand the debate, we must first know the premise: that boys and girls (and men and women) are physically different based on biology, giving men the upper hand in most athletics because they are larger and have more muscle mass. Of course, that's a generalization for all generalizations and enters the spiral of "What does it mean to be a man o a woman?", but when it comes to sport, long ago separating the sexes appeared the most fair way to do things. (That, and when many sports created professional women's leagues, like the WNBA and LPGA, the existing leagues were male-only. Not exactly "fair.")