I'm asking to defend your opinion. That's not playing dumb. Clearly Pete and many other Democrats have different views in the issue and they don't think they are throwing Trans people under the bus. So please explain how they are doing that, asshole.
They're lying about something that isn't happening as an excuse to discriminate against trans people. They're not throwing trans people under the bus, they are actively discriminating against them and trying to legitimize the criminalization of being transgender.
Are you saying there are NO trans women competing in sports across the US?
I'm saying concerns about fairness are completely fictional. There is no issue of fairness in trans women playing sports. It isn't a problem and anybody saying it is is at best a coward trying to appeal to bigots and at worst is a bigot themselves.
There are no physical advantages to being a trans woman when competing against a biological woman?
Every single story you've ever been told about trans women automatically being better at sports than biological women is a lie and you buying it is evidence of 1) Your stunning ignorance of human biology, 2) Your own bigotry against women, transgender or otherwise.
So let's say a biological male who identifies as female but hasn't transitioned. Should that person be allowed to compete in women's sports?
If they identify as female, they are transitioning. If somebody identifies as a woman, that makes them a woman.
There was a standard for this in most of athletics, and that was if a trans woman had been on hormone therapy for a year and had testosterone levels in the normal cis female range they could compete in women's athletics. It's what Lia Thomas did, and she was still crucified by the right.