Posted on 06/01/2022 3:39:10 AM PDT by NetAddicted
Two doctors have told the New York Times that transgender swimmer Lia Thomas has a “biological advantage” over her opponents.
Thomas, a biological male who competes against collegiate female athletes, made national headlines after he won the women’s 500-yard freestyle in March.
Mayo Clinic doctor Michael J. Joyner, who studies the physiology of male and female athletes, recognizes the competitive advantages transgender athletes like Thomas hold over their female counterparts.
Transgender swimmer UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas (Screenshot)
Although prepubescent girls develop faster than young boys, any competitive advantage is destroyed at the onset of puberty. “You see the divergence immediately as the testosterone surges into the boys,” Joyner told The New York Times.
After puberty, “there are dramatic differences in performances” between men and women, according to Joyner.
“There are social aspects to sport, but physiology and biology underpin it,” Joyner continued. “Testosterone is the 800-pound gorilla.”
Elite male swimmers set records 10 to 12 percent faster than elite female swimmers, on average, according to the Times.
The outlet noted that Thomas “rose substantially in national rankings” when he entered women’s meets. For example, instead of a 32nd place finish in the 1,650-yard freestyle when competing against men, Thomas finished in eighth place swimming competitively against women. Similarly, he ranked 65th in the men’s 500-yard freestyle but won the championship competing against women.
Even though Thomas took one year of hormone-suppressing therapy to deflate testosterone levels, as required by the NCAA, his biological advantage is not inherently gone.
Dr. Ross Tucker, a sports physiologist, said that Thomas is “the manifestation of the scientific evidence.” “The reduction in testosterone did not remove her biological advantage.”
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Captain Obvious has struck again.....
The NYT has to ask two “experts” what every ten year old already knows.
Proving that once again, the best women are men!
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Wow, Deep State really is worried...
Goody.
Only took the NYT about a year to figger it out. Could be an improvement.
Thankfully I was unaware that there was actually anything like men pretending to be women when I was 10.
I feel bad for all these kids being exposed,no pun intended,to all these insane “adults*
My older brother told me about homosexuals when I was 10 and I didn’t believe him.
If many of our current generation of grade school teachers are this warped and twisted, just imagine how screwed up the poor little kids they are homo-grooming will be in 20 years.
To eloquently quote Cross (re:Close Quarters), "..Oooww my achin' fuggin back. NO CHIT, Sherlock!!.."
And there's no "her" there.
Geez this crap gets tedious..
I’m not a biologist...but even *I* knew that.
The Attorney General of Massachusetts is a filthy bull dyke Maoist named Maura Healey.To give you an idea of just how depraved she is she commented during the summer of 2020: "Yes,America is in flames,but that's how forests grow".
When it comes to "transgenders" she was once asked something like "what advice do you have for women and girls who feel uncomfortable finding males in the ladies' room?" Her response: "Hold it".
And this whore is running for Governor and she *will* win.And America thought that Mike Dukakis and Mitt Romney were bad!!
“Lia Thomas is a man” got me banned from Twitter. I’m not retracting.
I winder if, I was on TV, could I always refer to Thomas by name, rather than say she?
“The best women are men”
Your misogyny is getting tiresome. Lia Thomas is a man, not a woman.
“I winder if, I was on TV, could I always refer to Thomas by name, rather than say she?”
You mean ban pronouns altogether? I have thought about that quite a bit and I cannot see a reason that it would not work. Japanese is reportedly pretty close already. Not using pronouns would be very cumbersome, but with some practice beef thinks NetAddicted could make it happen.
DUH. Egads, are people really so stupid as to disagree with this?
Waiting for congress to go red? States rights. Make them all act in unison. The legislatures that won’t correct voting procedures.
Ya don’t say.
What a profound observation.
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