There's 5 lies that trans-identified male Veronica Ivy utilizes in this clip about biological sex and sport. Let's break it down. 1. "Policing whether transgender women and intersex women are really female is built in racism." While there has been historical racism against black females, the recent push to ban specific intersex athletes from female sports is not due to racism, but because they are males with sex development disorders. A common example is Caster Semenya, a black male Olympic athlete with 5-alpha reductase deficiency who competes in the female category. Due to a deficiency in the hormone that finalizes the male's external genital development, 5-ARD results in male external genitalia that is underdeveloped, looking more female-like in an XY fetus, but the rest of the male development is normal. Because of this, baby boys who have 5-ARD are sometimes confused as girls. People with 5-ARD have normally functioning testes which produce male-levels of T that the body receives and masculinizes from, especially during puberty. Due to this masculinization of the body from testicular T across development, Caster Semenya went through male puberty and therefore has a typical male advantage over females. Any intersex athlete that has XY chromosomes, functioning testes, and functioning androgen receptors will have the male advantage over females. Thus, barring them from sports has nothing to do with their skin color, but rather because they are male. 2. "I am a female because all my identity records say I'm female." This is circular reasoning, which is an argument that returns to its beginning without proving anything. Just because government, medical, or sports-issued documents claim that Veronica Ivy is female does not mean he actually is female. 3. "I'm made of biological stuff so I'm a biological female as well." Category error. Other animals and plants are made of biological stuff too but you wouldn't claim you're a watermelon, would you? We're all made of biological material. That does not mean a male is actually a female. 4. "We don't know whether transwomen have an advantage over cis women." There has been decades of research on the immense physical advantages males have over females, and transwomen are almost always typical males with no sex development disorder. The strength difference between male and female bodies is vast. Equally trained males have 57% more grip strength,[1] 65% more leg strength,[2] 90% more total upper body strength,[3] and 162% more punch power.[4] To put these numbers in comparison, males are only 7% taller than females, yet on the population level we easily see the considerable height differences between them.[5] Percentages like 50-160% are therefore immense and have considerably less overlap between the sexes. But what about transwomen who suppress their testosterone? Do they retain an advantage? Yes. At baseline, depending on the sport, males have 10-50% advantage over an equally trained female. For transwomen on T suppression, their muscle mass/strength parameters (the main source of their advantage) only reduce 2-12%, even over the course of two years. This does not come close to eliminating the musculoskeletal advantages.[6] 5. "If transwomen have advantage, the advantage is irrelevant because we allow all kinds of competitive advantages within women's sport." The advantage is not irrelevant. We are comparing apples to oranges. Sport is about recognizing and rewarding exceptional abilities within similar categories. Even if we separate sport by height or weight categories, males will still dominate in those categories over females. Why? Because being male gives a giant boost to almost every physiological aspect of sport performance, even after all things are equal. For example, in weightlifting, a male will lift 30% more compared to an equally trained female of the same weight and height. Thus, letting males compete in female sport would not be rewarding exceptional abilities within females. It would reward being male. References: [1] Bohannon, R., et al. (2019). Handgrip Strength: A Comparison of Values Obtained from the NHANES and NIH Toolbox Studies. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 73(2). [2] Lassek, W. D. and Gaulin, S. J. (2009). Costs and benefits of fat-free muscle mass in men: relationship to mating success, dietary requirements, and native immunity. Evolution of Human Behavior, 30, 322-328. [3] Morris, J., et al. (2020). Sexual dimorphism in human arm power and force: implications for sexual selection on fighting ability. Journal of Experimental Biology, 223(2). [4] Ibid. [5] Roser, M., et al. (2019). Human height. Our World in Data. [6] Hilton, E., Lundberg, T. (2020). Transgender women in the female category of sport: Perspectives on testosterone suppression and performance advantage. Sports Medicine, 51(2), 199-214.