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But it's paramount that we ban the 5'5" trans girl who has testosterone lower than cis girls from playing volleyball because....reasons.
You clearly don't know much about the sport. Women's net is far lower because there's a significant physical power difference between men and women. It's not just about average height.
Sure. There are differences in musculature and such. But after a period of hormone therapy, those muscular differences disappear. When this is pointed out, transphobes inevitably move the goalposts and start talking about larger bone/frame size. Or they'll spread lies about how trans women must have larger frames and thus be a danger to their cis peers. Well here's this cis woman, with a massive frame size, who could utterly stomp all over the vast majority of trans female athletes. And she's allowed to play.
But people just make ignorant assumptions and assume that the athletic performance of trans women is anything remotely like the athletic performance of cis men. They start with that conclusion and work backwards from there.
Well then you'd have to allow for added criteria that this fictional transgender person do tests to corroborate that they don't have an unfair advantage over their peers.
I have literally nothing against trans people but there have been at least one case where a trans person had an exaggerated unfair advantage. This case of one "Lia Thomas", who went from 462 in male rankings to 1 in female rankings. So yeah, I do believe that these extra controls should be performed.