Guys, thanks for answering my... what?... "finesse"?
Summarizing all below in one question: what is the solution in your opinion?
@markod
Good analysis. Yep, that's the point, and connected to what I was saying. I guess the "inversion" I proposed could make it more "evident" and easier to understand.
So, I wonder if there would be XXs highlighting among men in certain sports, like volleyball itself?
And one more approach: what was Tifanny before the change, as sportsman, and what did she/he become in comparison to her/his pairs, as sportswoman? If the original condition doesn't matter that much, a similar relative performance would be expected, no?
I recognize the complexity of the matter though. Ygorcs is right. I just think this complexity is not that much in the general imbalance provoked by "XY" and "XX", evident imo, but in the integration of these people, never mind mere motivations of political nature, and we know they exist. I certainly appreciate more technical approaches.
That said, the "condition", or whatever we call it, could be discussed separately from a psychological (?) perspective, but anyway I assume many of them are probably better with their choice, and they are, yes, different in important aspects, which doesn't mean they're "sub-citizens"(!), right? So, objectivelly, the question, here, would be: how to fit them? It matters imo, and should matter at least for the free world, after all, freedom imposes certain costs, and that includes the right of minorities. Indeed, they are generally citizens of free societies, and, as such, formally as good as anybody else. More importantly, they are people. On the other hand, there could be a conflict of, let's call, rights (?), after all, we have XX women on the other side.
So, alternatively, would a "transgender league" be viable, for example, in the fashion of, say, Paralympic games? I wonder if the audience could justify it in the future, with the help of sponsorships or whomever want to support it.
The counter-argument to keep them where they are could be their currently very low number and the fact they're not necessarily the best where they act, since they are... relatively few. So, that would not be a high price to pay, supposedly. Well, at least not so far. Still, truth be said, many of them, perhaps the most, would be ordinary as "professional" sportsmen, and, as women, would own their "success", in large degree, to the condition in question, beyond the natural ones. Admittedly, certain substances, too, affect what we recognize as "natural", and at the end this is the criteria (being natural), aside relativisms of all sorts. Let's try to be realisthic and go straight to the point. They are not less people than we are, which doesn't mean the change, the condition, is "natural". It is not. Again: what was Tifanny before the change, as man, and what did she/he become in comparison to her/his pairs, as woman? Plus, those are precedents that may evolve to something else. At an unlikely extreme, a league could become, yes, transgender, but with a different label. That's potentially.
So, what's the solution, and how to conciliate it with their right of what we could call "personal plenitude"? Keeping them? Keeping them just in specific ones? Not keeping, under the risk of not being able to fit them somewhere else? I mean, some transgenders may be talentend, and may want to be professional sportspersons. What to do then? Putting them among males? At least few time ago they couldn't even join the army. Complicated. At the end, both have a social price imo. Which is higher? Perhaps the answer is in the acceptance of them by sportswomen and in public opinion in general, even if it's subject to a pure "marketing" (for or against), and even if the best answer is not always, necessarily, in... public opinion.
Now, this seems complex, yes, and I must agree with Ygorcs here.
That said, particularly, I guess the lowest price, and perhaps the most "fair", would be in "private" competitions, in the fashion of Paralympic games, but perhaps we could also wait a bit more to see how it unrolls? I mean, it's something still new. If not, the solution would be to put them among males, which would probably mean not putting them anywhere. Again, complicated.
Insights are welcome.