There have been various debates on trans athletes [in competitive sports] here on BigCloset. Here is a Fact Check on that subject.
I do not intend to open a controversy or even a debate on the place of transgender athletes participating in various professional, so-called amateur or school-based (secondary and tertiary level) sports events or competitions. Sadly the right and far-right political actors of the host country for the upcoming Summer Olympics are imposing unilateral rule changes based on ideological backlash.
After seeing a lot of ideological hate-mongering from so-called sports journalists, the Deutsche Welle yesterday published a science based fact check that pretty much achieves a neutral presentation of the available scientific facts without presenting or promoting a bias one way or the other. You can view this 8:42 minute report at Fact check: Banning transgender athletes from women’s sports – fair or unfair?.
Please consider this blog purely as a FYI.
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The excuse that is used is that an MtF athlete has a decided advantage. Assuming for a moment that's true. The advantage comes from going through male puberty.
BUT they also seek to prohibit T-Blockers, insisting that those are unsafe for kids. (Decades of research and implementation prove otherwise.)
The Cool Hand Luke of Junk Science.
Your Testosterone gives you an advantage.
Fine, I'll work with my child's doctor to secure T-Blockers
NOT SO FAST!!!
I lament the eleven-year-old trans girl getting kicked off medical help!!!!!!
Love, Andrea Lena