World Athletics chief say rules will uphold the integrity of women’s sport amid debate over inclusion of trans athletes.

  • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    If it was about that, then it was solved decades ago… when it was made that people who have transitioned can’t compete for 2 years.

    You ever wonder why, despite how there should be hundreds of cases of the thing you are worried about actually happening, it still literally never has happened? That’s because it already can’t happen. It was solved. 100%.

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      7 days ago

      The best data is from military recruits, and there are a couple of recent studies, one published in 2020 and one in 2023. They looked at cis men, cis women, trans man and trans women. How many steps you can do in a minute, how many push ups you can do in a minute, and how fast you can run 1.5 miles. And what they found in that study was that trans women remained faster for up to two years after the initiation of gender affirming hormone therapy. At four years, trans women continued to do more sit ups and push ups.

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      You can also google endless examples of trans athletes breaking women’s records. Don’t lie that it has never happened.