I honestly struggle to understand how trans women are disadvantaged if they’ve been through puberty as boys
If hormone levels are irrelevant to performance, why do cis male athletes dope?
Your premise that trans women who have been on HRT for years are physically and functionally identical to teenage boys isn’t based in reality. If HRT did nothing to your body nobody would take it.
Except i didn’t say that hormones were irrelevant to performance. Unfortunately its never such a binary situation.
I was talking about the physical effects of hormones while going through puberty.
If this persists then there will be advantages.
If it degrades over time then how long does it take?
Lots of professional sport is undertaken by late teen or early twenties athletes, will they still have ‘advantages’?
It really doesn’t matter in the vast majority of cases and possibly even all cases.
It is something that needs to be understood though given that it’s competitions that often feed into the professional scene and the data needs to support it
If hormone levels are irrelevant to performance, why do cis male athletes dope?
Your premise that trans women who have been on HRT for years are physically and functionally identical to teenage boys isn’t based in reality. If HRT did nothing to your body nobody would take it.
Except i didn’t say that hormones were irrelevant to performance. Unfortunately its never such a binary situation.
I was talking about the physical effects of hormones while going through puberty.
If this persists then there will be advantages. If it degrades over time then how long does it take? Lots of professional sport is undertaken by late teen or early twenties athletes, will they still have ‘advantages’? It really doesn’t matter in the vast majority of cases and possibly even all cases.
It is something that needs to be understood though given that it’s competitions that often feed into the professional scene and the data needs to support it