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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[bike800]

Greater heart and lung capacity ... duh

[livius]

What a surprise.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Figures she would hang out with Ellen who was exposed as another abusive asshole toward the “little people”.......

https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/ellen-degeneres-household-staff/

[The_Media_never_lie]

Duh! Did the person who wrote this go to college? I can tell.

[Maudeen]

This all is so bizarre. Just how repulsed can God be witnessing all this. . . . but then He knew it was going to happen. We all have choices. . .unfortunately choices have consequences and they also affect others. Just look at the election.

[BradyLS]

And they cheated to do it!

[BradyLS]

The real problem is that the person who wrote it never left the bubble of college!

[Bobalu]

No one who has had a high level of testosterone in their system for an extended time should compete against XX females who do have that physical advantage.

This includes both trannies and XX females who have taken testosterone.

[bray]

So the science is pointing towards only two sexes.

[vpintheak]

Ya don’t say!?

[jimfree]

The average male can break the average female in half. The average very fit male can break the average very fit female in half. Arguing otherwise denies reality, mocks science, and risks serious harm to women and girls.

[windsorknot]

Science is irrelevant in the age of identity politics.

[Bobalu]

Yup, height is partly determined by your age when you start puberty.

During puberty hormones cause the bone ends to ossify, stopping growth. XX ends up shorter with smaller hands, feet, delicate facial structure...etc

Boys generally end up a bit taller since their puberty comes along a year or two later than the girls. XY ends up taller with larger hands, feet, strong facial structure...etc

[Lockbox]

Who’s the science denier now!

[Safetgiver]

GD!! Look at the pecker on that thing!!

[ETL]

Look at the pecker on that thing!!

[BradyLS]

Girl in red is the only thing worth watching.

[Paal Gulli]

There is anecdotal evidence (AFAIK never tested under controlled conditions) that men who take exogenous anabolic steroids experience strength gains that persist for years (and possibly for the rest of their lives) after discontinuing the drug. So if a boy experiences puberty before being medically or mechanically castrated, he already has had enough exposure to Testosterone — an endogenous (natural) anabolic steroid — to give him increased strength probably at least through his young adult years, if not longer.

Which is why any woman who tests positive for an exogenous anabolic steroid should never again be allowed in sporting events competing against other women. Because for an indeterminate period of time she will continue to benefit from the discontinued steroid use.

[xp38]

Maybe if no one pays attention to competitive athletics anymore this will go away.