Study: Male Athletes Transitioning to Female Retain Massive Strength Advantage Despite Hormone Therapy

Breitbart ^ | 12/14/2020 | Penny Star

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A study published in Sports Medicine found that testosterone blockers taken by biological men who want to live as women do not significantly diminish their strength and gives them an advantage when competing against biological women in sports.

The study found that elite male athletes are around 10 to 13 percent faster than female athletes and the difference in sports like bowling cricket balls, hitting long drives, and weightlifting is even greater — 29 percent to 52 percent.

“Performance differences larger than 20 percent are generally present when considering sports and activities that involve extensive upper body contributions,” the study said. “The gap between fastest recorded tennis serve is 20 percent, while the gaps between fastest recorded baseball pitches and field hockey drag flicks exceed 50 percent.”

The Guardian reported on the study:

When transgender women suppress testosterone for 12 months, researchers found that the loss of lean body mass, muscle area and strength was only around 5 percent. Therefore, they say, “the muscular advantage enjoyed by transgender women is only minimally reduced when testosterone is suppressed” and “small compared to the baseline differences”.

The results are significant because under the current International Olympic Committee guidelines, transgender women are allowed to compete in female sports categories if they suppress their testosterone below 10 nmol/L for 12 months before and during competition. Yet even when testosterone was suppressed to around 1 nmol/L it did not “remove the anthropometric and muscle mass/strength advantage in any significant way” – although the authors say the reduced cardiovascular performance may generate smaller retained advantage in endurance sports.

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[Oldeconomybuyer]

Unexpected.

[Gay State Conservative]

If I was a real woman competing against a dame with 5 o’clock shadow I be angry beyond words.

[Reno89519]

Shouldn’t they be committed anyway? Isolated, under suicide watch, and given counseling to figure out how to deal with the reality of their sex.

[RatRipper]

That would never occurred to me without a study. . . . /sarc

[RummyChick]

Just now being reported Keyontae Johnson put into a coma.

Collapsed on the basketball court.

Surely with all the tests they would have spotted if a heart issue had developed after Covid.

[robel]

We knew that. Is the next study going to reveal that males pretending to be females still look like males?

[GraceG]

So what is stopping a Female from SAYING she is a man, taking years of testosterone for “gender transitioning” then changing her mind and competing as a woman again?

NOTHING!

Just like the election, cheating is now allowed...

[TangledUpInBlue]

Duh... Mother Nature has a way of prevailing regardless of the topic. It’s not nice to fool with her.

[Pining_4_TX]

Of course. This is all such nonsense. Males are different in their skeletal structure and muscles. No amount of hormones or surgery will change that. Reality has a way of intruding on people’s fantasies. What is sad is that the rest of us are expected to participate in these fantasies. Even doctors are not allowed to treat these people as their real biological sex.

[PGR88]

Science: men are still men, despite that you may call them something else.

[Dutch Boy]

If there are going to be trans people competing, they should have their own sports class. That way men compete against men, women against woman, trans man against trans man, and trans woman against trans woman.

[crosdaddy]

We already know this, we don’t need a study. The advantage already occurred prior to any Testosterone reduction; the person already had higher bone density, stronger connective tissue, and more lean muscle mass. This shit is stupid, it needs to be outlawed, people have already been seriously hurt because of it. Freaks, find something else to do with your life.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

But but but the transophiles say: the women that do well in sports are those with unnaturally high levels of testosterone.

So instead of having men's and women's sports categories they should do like boxing and have not weight, but testosterone level classifications.

I'm sure that will keep people interested in watching sports. /sarc

[Secret Agent Man]

embrace the amazons

they are wonder women

[Hojczyk]

Parents of girls should go to the school board meetings carring pitch fork..

Uncle Joe is all for boys in girls locker rooms

[Skywise]

Noooooo! Gender is a social construct and has nothing to do with biology!

[inchworm]

And larger bone tubercles for muscle attachment mean a greater rotational lever arms of force upon the axis is in part why males generally can exert more rotational force upon their joints. They can cut their balls off but the tubercles remain.

[libertylover]

Sometimes I hate it when I’m right all the time.

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