1. The MMA should allow transgender people to fight in the gender group that they transitioned into. Fallon went through the process to be a women. In her heart she knows she is a women, so the MMA shouldn't tell a person they can't find in the male or female group because they weren't born a male or female.
2. No, because they went through intense hormonal treatment to become the gender that they wanted to be. the point of the hormone treatment is to change your body and make it feel the way it would feel if you were originally born a male or female. The doctor explained in the interview that when a man transitions into a women there muscle mass goes down, they red blood cell count goes down, so a transgender person has as much of an advantage as a person who was born male or female.
3. It wouldn't be any different to me than if I was fighting a women who was born a women. I wouldn't think of her having an advantage over me just because she was born a man, the only thing I would be thinking about is whether or not she is more skilled at fighting than me. If I said that she only beat me or could only beat me because she was born a man, then I'm not giving her credit for the work she has put into her career and the talent that she clearly has.
4. The transgender athlete should be honest with their medical history. If they want to be respected as a transgender athlete then they should be honest from the beginning. Fans will have less respect for an athlete if they aren't honest from the beginning of their career. The MMA should also be more open minded when they handle a situation with a transgender athlete. Instead of saying a transgender women will have an advantage because they were born a man, look at whether or not there is a risk to their opponents safety.
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