Trangender athletes

Regarding a story I read about a boy who merely claimed he was a girl to win track events.

I am still think about this because I know that it will not just go away if I do not acknowledge it, and I like to discuss relevant things with my children and this is part of the crazy world they will live in where being a "good boy" is too vague. I need to inform them how one should react to such things.

My son pointed out that he figured if they were s boy growing up then they would have boy muscles. Because I have taught him that girl snd boy muscles are different in how they store and access fat thus making women "softer". You never know when you lightly say a thing and it will become monumental to him. This is the case with muscle growth in men and women for him. Ofcourse, we have not even begun to talk about chemical differences yet, still he had an interesting point if DNA determines muscle formation than even with drug/hormonal treatment would the person actually be changed? It is like taking a terrible althlete and giving them steriods. It would not mean that they would suddenly have an unfair advantage only that they had an chemical advantage. Maybe a better example would be my high school cross country team. At the start of the year, I had the "natural" advantage and was a higher position on the team, but gradually one by one others were beating me. I figured it was just that enough time meant there was a shift from who had the better physical make up to who worked hardest and honestly, I did not work hard. Then, at a regional competition, a few girls asked me what pain killer I was taking cause it clearly wasn't working. Apparently, many girls were changing their performance by taking pain killing drugs. But, the girls who only possesed a desire to win but not the ability, no amount of painkiller made a difference and though, I moved down a few notches, I still, to this day, am not convinced it was due to pain killers. I believe that regardless of chemical advantage, the body is what makes someone win or loose. Hormones effect strength, but not the creation of the DNA or does it. I am no expert.

But, Holy Crap, batman! What kind of world is this going to be? Lately, I hear so much chatter regarding robotic manipulation, gender altering, etc. Pretty soon " who" anyone is will be so fluid and unreliable we will look back at the days of weight gain being the enemy fondly.