When Hormones Only Matter When You Want Them To Matter
The hypocrisy of the anti-transgender movement
People opposed to transgender women in sports once again reared their ugly heads when the stories about Olympian Imane Khelif of Algeria began circulating. Even after the media reported Khelif is not transgender, the rhetoric around gender ideology and abnormal hormone levels continued.
An Inconsistent Narrative
Gender-critical people are quick to accuse women with testosterone levels outside the average female range of being men pretending to be women. Then they turn around and accuse transgender men, who also have testosterone outside of the average female range, of being women pretending to be men.
So, in their eyes, testosterone levels only matter when they say they matter? First, they take issue because transgender men artificially elevate our testosterone levels. However, some transgender men also suffer from Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) or other hormonal conditions that can naturally elevate our testosterone levels. Regardless, transphobes will still call us women if we dare identify as transgender men.
They seem to forget that many cisgender women suffer from PCOS or other conditions that naturally raise their testosterone levels, which can cause…
