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A real question about trans athletes and records
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this post was submitted on 21 Aug 2025
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My understanding is that there is absolutely no evidence that trans women have an advantage. Once hormone therapy has been going for a while performance shows no statistical difference from women assigned female at birth. I was listening to a report on the radio just yesterday.
Additionally the number of trans athletes is incredibly small.
I've heard that the greatest correlation with Olympic medal tally is the amount of state funding for sports and sport sciences. If we're going to asterisk any records, it should probably be for everyone from wealthy countries.
That's a really salient point - there are a lot of other impediments to "fairness" which are much more relevant.
Yep, the "fairness" argument is a transparent figleaf for intentional persecution.
Going from 554th place pre-transition to 5th place post-transition doesn't line up with that claim.
Your link is just to this post, but after searching I believe you're talking about Lia Thomas. That's a single example so not necessarily representative.
"FACT: Trans athletes do not have an unfair advantage in sports.”
"After one year of hormone therapy, trans women performed better in sports than cis women. After two years, their performance was largely equalized.”
"...finding that trans women athletes are at a relative disadvantage in many key physical areas relating to athletic ability... than their cisgender counterparts."
Your understanding is very incorrect.