Trans people & sports

[The Grand Nudger]

No, it's not a coincidence that a weightlifter holds a weightlifting record, but that's not what people were upset about. It's the fact that she completely smashed the record. She lifted 41 pounds more than the person who came in 2nd place.

Then they're upset about a trans winning, the shittiest way to be upset in sports, lol.  The trans advantage is still nowhere to be found.   

FYI, she is a MTF, not a FTM, competing against cisgender females.

Yeah I know, those people™ and their acronyms are too much for me to keep straight though.  

She also competed in weightlifting as a man. I'd say the advantage she has is the fact that she trained for weightlifting as a man, and clearly despite people's continued insistence that the transitioning process effectively negates any bone / muscle advantage, she still has some advantage, because she's lifting 41 pounds more than her nearest competitor.

It's not "peoples continued insistence" - it's the conclusion of the clinical studies which were performed backing the IOC, for examples, decision.  Trivializing me or the boards does not and cannot trivialize that. The point that these studies make, and that these regulatory boards make decisions on, is that "training as a man"..whatever the hell that's supposed to mean or imply.....is irrelevant in the case of a -post- op transition compared to cis-gendered peers.

"She won, bigtime, she must have an advantage". Okay........ring me up when that's ever not true about anyone..or when you figure out what trans advantage that some advantage was.