5:31 PM
trans women have been participating in sports for a long time now and no one cared until trans people became the talking point of the US. Every time a trans woman wins in a competition with results far from what the best women athletes are capable of, it becomes a huge talking point, despite the fact that trans women are actually on average terrible at sports
most trans women that are transitioning will have their testosterone levels lower than the average athlete cis woman, because Estrogen without suppressing Testosterone isn't doing much for feminization
the fact that trans women have been allowed in olympics for years just show that someone already confirmed that it's fair
I haven't seen any scientifical or medical article talking about the advantages of trans women, the only people talking about it are people who have no idea how hormones work, don't know any trans women and frankly didn't care about women's sports until it became something they could become armchair experts in
and if you're gonna talk about outliers - trans women in sports are outliers. There's not that many of them in sports at all, and hardly any that do well enough to matter. The focus is always on the same few ones that if you actually looked into it, didn't even do that well in the competitions they won
so how can you say it's fine for cis/intersex outliers to have clear advantages, but trans women somehow cross the line?