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Trans women have no advantage in elite sport, new report finds (www.thepinknews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

The real issue trans women in sports potentially opens up is bringing scrutiny to the diversity of body and hormone levels people have and how that has a big influence on performance in sports, which would be a big change to sports categories and make blood tests mandatory, and im unsure sports orgs want to open that can of worms given it'd hurt some cis people, as there's already a few examples in a few sports