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So much of the arguments around trans women in sports put forward paint sports as an issue of winning. They do not put sports forward as a civil human right to be able to participate in society. There are so many comparative opportunities made for disabled people to participate in sport that use those arguments but here is a group that faces barriers of social ostracization and they are basically told that they aren't worthy of being tolerated. That they must accept a dramatically smaller access to society.
What is the purpose of sport? Does it have just one purpose and does that override every other good and enriching thing it offers?
personally i would argue that winning is probably not the major importance of sports. it feels good to win and people tend to focus on it, but taken to its logical extreme the pursuit of victory over everything becomes a societal technological exercise that destroys human bodies or takes them out of the equation entirely. see every single sport in existence having rules against the use of technological enhancements that become required in order to compete. those fancy suits in swimming, all manner of performance enhancing drugs, fancy bouncy shoes in running. hell even techniques can become banned like how in competition swimming you cant stay under the water for more than a certain length of the pool.
as for what is the purpose? well mine is socializing with people.