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FACT: Trans women athletes do not have a physical fitness advantage compared to other women (lemmy.today)

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https://xcancel.com/PeterTatchell/status/2088179038804221963

New study: no significant differences between trans & non-trans sportswomen in upper-body strength, lower-body strength or aerobic fitness after hormone therapy

FACT: Trans women athletes do not have a physical fitness advantage compared to other women

https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/08/12/trans-athletes-womens-sports-advantage-scientific-study/

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This meta-analysis covers mostly non-athletes, rates evidence low/very low certainty, and omits sport-specific performance. It does not reverse retained male advantages post-puberty. World Rugby evidence review: https://www.world.rugby/the-game/player-welfare/guidelines/transgender

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You can count the number of famous trans athletes on zero fingers.

Meanwhile, the number of cis-athletes claiming they've been denied an opportunity to compete or outperformed by someone cheating with performance enhancing estrogen are entirely too easy to find.

[–] Oryx_404@lemmy.today 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There soon might be at least one

https://xcancel.com/Highway_30/status/2087700989990121532

Genitalia doesn't determine gender. That's a cis normative fallacy. My trans-affirming doctor told me I can think of my genitalia as 9 inches of clitoris.

Royce White for President

WNBA #LetHerPlay

It seems unlikely that White is actually trans, tweets like this are obviously not serious. The best defense I've seen of this is that right now the WNBA has 0 rules about eligibility, and this will force them to pick some policy. Not sure that that's a particularly strong defense though.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I haven't seen any evidence that Royce White is good at basketball.

This guy rode the bench for his short lived career and then ran off to play at politics. When Anthony Edwards wants to play in the WNBA maybe we'll care. But this is a nobody. He wouldn't qualify regardless.

[–] CompostMaterial@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I have a dead simple solution to trans athletes in sports: Stop making sports gendered!

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

So essentially: get rid of women's sports (at an elite level anyway)