RE: Man Named 'Tiffany' Is Dominating Women's Pro Volleyball in Brazil
March 2, 2018 at 5:34 am
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2018 at 5:53 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 2, 2018 at 5:19 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: It's insane to call the advantages of being male in sports shaky. Like, bonkers insane.If you say so, but I would suggest that you take another look, particularly in the context of m-f trans.
Quote:Currently, there is no direct or consistent research suggesting transgender female individuals (or male individuals) have an athletic advantage at any stage of their transitionhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5357259/
Strangely, their male advantages..whatever those are supposed to be, seem to vanish even -before- surgery.
Quote:Taking performance decreasing drugs does not decrease to the level of a woman, who went through puberty without loads of testosterone in her body. I mean obviously. But if you think being male isnt a proven advantage in sports. Even though the record in every single sport ever is held by men, that holds objective records, then there is really no point in having a conversation about it.If the levels of performance enhancing substances within a trans athletes body is too high, the ioc..for example, won't let them compete. That fully transitioned athletes have lower levels of performance enhancing substances than their cisgendered peers is an effect of suppresants and surgery..and nothing about having gone through puberty as a male changes that.
-the same is true in the case of f-m trans, btw. If their levels of performance enhancing substances are higher than the male limit (and hey, they're actively taking them as part of their transition..so it could happen) they would also be rejected...by and large, however, they are not. What we have, in sum, is no indication that there is any advantage to being a trans athlete at any point in process...with the terminus being a state in which they are flatly performance inferior compared to cisgendered peers...as far as we understand and regulate the underlying biology of performance in sports.
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