Opponents say [Washington state] voters were persuaded at least partly because the initiative and its boosters exploited deep-seated prejudices and misunderstandings about transgender people to erode their rights.
Opponents say [Washington state] voters were persuaded at least partly because the initiative and its boosters exploited deep-seated prejudices and misunderstandings about transgender people to erode their rights.
Cool anecdote or whatever, but just because you feel a certain way doesn’t change the facts. Study after study after study shows transgender athletes do not have any advatanges over their cisgender peers after long term HRT. If trans folks could easily cheat and gain an advantage, why aren’t they? It’s not like trans people are mystical elves who do no wrong; there are absolutely evil trans folks out there, so why aren’t they dominating sports leagues with their supposed inherent biological advantages? How come we just gotta hear about some whiny woman who tied for 5th place in a swim competition one time?
Nobody cares about what you think proper trans care should be because that’s a discussion that should be between a person and their doctor. If a doctor says the best treatment for folks is to do the macarena every morning, your opinion and feelings don’t matter on the subject. Transgender youth are mostly recommended puberty blockers which is a not a permanent treatment, but if they are being perscribed HRT then that is a decision that came into play after the patient discussed things with their doctor.
You wanna be an ally? That’s fine, but stop trying to drive the bus when you obviously have no idea what you’re talking about. The best thing you personally can do is to shut up and sit in the back.
Your own study that you just linked acknowledges a higher lean mass difference WHICH MEANS THEY HAVE MORE MUSCLE. The study says this doesn’t ‘necessarily automatically translate to greater athletic ability’ which personally I think is horseshit.
Nor does it address differences in musculo-skeletal mass. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10641525/
It is absolute horseshit you think the science is squarely in your corner on this, because it most DEFINITELY isn’t.
What part of what I said above disagrees with you that this should be between a trans person and their doctor? That’s literally what I said. Unless consensus has changed post-puberty HRT is how they do things, blockers are used until puberty stops. There are advocates out there who are saying give the HRT and blockers OTC not understanding you can’t take both, and think that such a thing should be OTC and at the child’s decision alone which is INSANE.
Personally don’t plan on shutting up especially when you still haven’t addressed how you keep someone undergoing hormone treatments from beating doping in sports too. There are definitely issues with cheating already with the cis crowd, and it is actually much much easier for someone who’s taking hormones already to dope. Their levels can drop back down quicker during testing making it harder to detect cheating and steroid use.
Also it’s patently ridiculous to merge women’s and men’s leagues as Venus and Serena showed, and what my personal anecdote was about. Women can’t compete on the same level as men physically with sports. It’s ridiculous that Chess is separated by men and women’s leagues sure. But anything physical? You’re joking right? Or you’ve never done sports?
Again your feelings do not matter. The study I linked and the study you linked say the same thing. I’ve bolded the relevant text for the illiterate.
From my link, “While transgender women exhibited higher lean mass than cisgender women, their physical fitness was comparable. Current evidence is mostly low certainty and has heterogenous quality but does not support theories of inherent athletic advantages for transgender women over cisgender.”
From your link, “While data are still scarce, the limited information available does not suggest that trans men and trans women have much, if any, athletic advantage post-transition. Indeed, in most cases they perform more similarly to those matching their gender identity, or somewhere between cis men and women.”
It doesn’t matter what you feel like the truth is. It doesn’t matter what you call horseshit because your words are not as reliable as the statements of doctors and researchers. Nobody cares that you’ve done your own research because you aren’t an expert if you obviously can’t read.
As for your argument about advocates of OTC, that’s a nice strawman to build up, but until I see doctors widely recommending over the counter HRT for trans youth to self medicate, it’s meaningless to get all pissy about it. It’s the equivalent of claiming, “Someone on Twitter told me they advocate for drunk driving so I think we should just ban cars all together.”
And I don’t know what should be done about sports, but that’s because I’m not a sports medicine expert and clearly, neither are you. It’s great that you really like sports and value the integrity of the field or whatever, but your feelings about your hobby should have no bearing on wider social policy.
Again, hotly debated topic and even by their own results there ARE differences. Lean muscle mass IS greater in trans female athletes. Doping is easier to conceal in trans male athletes.
Bold assumption that I didn’t go to college and don’t have a bachelors in Exercise Science. I mean all I’ve ever wanted to do in life is train athletes lol.
But hey you can believe what you want and I’ll certainly continue believing what I do. I think your problem is largely that most sports at the moment, the sports medicine experts ARE advocating against trans athlete participation. The opinions of the researchers and scientists in those studies concluded that lean muscle mass doesn’t result in a competitive advantage. That is totally NOT the consensus of the field at large, and why people educated on the subject like myself are leery of the political impact on studies like this. Lean muscle mass as percentage of body weight remains the best predictor of physical ability. That’s not even addressing musculo-skeletal differences which deals with how muscle attaches to the skeleton or how muscle structurally forms, which IS different between the sexes, and unfortunately, presently HRT doesn’t affect, those differences persist regardless of puberty blockers present in prepubescence. So… tech has to get better to transition more completely.
The studies we both posted are reliable when you read them wrong and thought they agreed with you, but now they are unreliable when I point out you read them wrong and they disagree with you. What incredible judgement you’ve displayed. Your thoughts and ideas are really good and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter and discussion boards where you and other “people educated on the subject” congregate. /s