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Correct me if I'm wrong or sound bigoted, but this seems like an inclusive solution. It respects preferred gender, treats participants as equals during the event, doesn't need to bring hormones into the discussion at all, while still addressing TERF-y arguments about supposed fairness.
Transgender and cisgender women can compete at the same event geared for all women, and each athlete is treated the same throughout the competition, until the results. The only change being simply having separate rankings and sharing the podium: the top transgender and cisgender women can both take 1st place, if organizers judge that having been AMAB is a physical advantage for that sport.
The simplest solution is stop gendering individual competition. Run everyone together and sort the results by gender later if that's your prerogative.
Doesn't this still result in the same issue, though? If cis men tend to sprint faster (for example) because of an inherent physiological advantage, there's a need to rank women's results separately regardless of whether they ran alongside, and at that point you still have to decide whether you include trans women in that group, rank trans women (or all trans competitors) in their own grouping, or exclude them from grouping, and all of these feel unfair in one way or another.
No. if there's no body to decide it then it's your own choice and bigots are just going to do their bigoted shit you just wouldn't need to care about it at all.