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Ada ( ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone )  to LGBTQ+English · 3 years ago

Trans women have no advantage in elite sport, new report finds

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Trans women have no advantage in elite sport, new report finds

www.thepinknews.com

Ada ( ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone )  to LGBTQ+English · 3 years ago
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A new report has found that trans athletes do not have a biological advantage from things such as lung capacity and bone density.
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    This article is also really good: https://www.science.org/content/article/scientist-racing-discover-how-gender-transitions-alter-athletic-performance-including

    It goes into detail on a real world athletics study (instead of studies on individual factors like muscle mass or grip strength that may not be representative at all of sport performance) in running that shows that after transitioning, trans women perform the same relative to their cis women peers as they did to their cis male peers prior to transitioning — i.e., same place in the distribution curve.

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      Key detail being “after transitioning”.

      Someone who says that they identify as trans but doesn’t medically transition at all could still wreck competition. So sports competitions can’t just allow all trans people, but only those who have medically transitioned. Then they need to figure out how to draw the line when it comes to different hormone dosages, surgeries, etc…

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        And all major governing bodies do, including the Olympics which opened up to trans people years ago. Making this statement about the system shows you’re ignorant of the current state of sports governance.

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