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Athletics governing body to require DNA tests for women’s sports (www.aljazeera.com)
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World Athletics chief say rules will uphold the integrity of women’s sport amid debate over inclusion of trans athletes.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

also interested in hearing what you think the exception is
It would be a statistical miracle if every single trans woman was stronger than every biological woman.
but I’d never claim that there’s no exceptions

Ok, that's fair.

I’m confident in claiming that most are

Right, but that's what the other commenters were waiting for supporting research on, I believe.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month 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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