Trans women... You're absolutely right on taking a stand, and how that means suffering in the short term, and I thought the same thing where you wrote that it was political and they were sending a message lest it spread.
Here's the tiny bit of irony, when a female was allowed to join a male dominated sport like football, and they allowed her to be the kicker, the female had to prove themselves an the team had to prove themselves because having an actual biological female was a handicap.
They are called the (physically) weaker sex for a reason.
However when a "trans woman" (biological male) joins a team, that team has a tremendous advantage strengthwise.
So what would have been cause for celebration when an actual woman proves herself in a sport dominated by men therefore proving to be exceptional, all this is lost when a biological male joins a female team. That male and that team aren't doing anything other than low key cheating.
If I stick an elon musk robot with a stuffed brazier on a team as a trans woman, I hope all the teams play "her" and get disqualified if they don't. Who will have the last laugh then?