Do you remember ‘penis inspection day’ at school?

[Rev. Rye]

This seems like a bad bill, but I'm going to play devil's advocate for the whole trans-in-sports thing.

Trans men-to-women athletes experience significant performance gains from muscle put on from past male testosterone levels. While overall strength will wane if those levels are reduced, it can take years. That is my understanding, and I am willing to be corrected.

So, this is a battle between a human rights issue, and fair competition for other athletes. (Plus, some athletics is big business).

However, at high-school level, this really shouldn't be an issue. It has been grabbed by the religious right.

Actually, as it turns out, the advantages given by past testosterone levels tend to get evened out after you go on hormones for a while. Here’s one article about it.

https://medium.com/the-establishment/no-...b8e249f93c

And here’s a meta-study showing that there isn’t really much difference:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5357259/

I know, right? I used to assume that sports might actually be one of the few areas where trans people have not only a material difference with cis women, but also an unfair advantage, especially after watching Fallon Fox go Butch Coolidge on Tamikka Brents, but, looking closer at the data, it turns out that’s not actually the case, especially if you’re on hormones for long enough. It does take time, but it probably takes less time than you might expect.