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Athletes
Trans athletes are at no significant advantage in athletics, especially since hormones reverse any strength discrepancies, yet face substantial discrimination in athletics.
- Jones et al. 17
- Meta-analysis covering prior research on trans individuals’ performance in sports and preexisting sports policies concerning trans people
- “There is no direct or consistent research suggesting transgender female individuals (or male individuals) have an athletic advantage at any stage of their transition
- (includes cross-sex hormones, gender-confirming surgery)
- competitive sport policies that place restrictions on transgender people need to be considered and potentially revised.
- Additional findings show most sports policies are** not evidence-based** and trans individuals experience substantial discrimination from sports institutions.
- National Collegiate Athletic Association: Griffin et al. 10
- “Any athletic advantages a transgender girl or woman arguably may have as a result of her prior testosterone levels dissipate after about one year of estrogen therapy”
- “According to medical experts on this issue, the assumption that a transgender girl or woman competing on a women’s team would have a competitive advantage outside the range of performance and competitive advantage or disadvantage that already exists among female athletes is not supported by evidence.”
- University of Leicester: Bethany et al. 16
- Study that notes how all earlier studies did not check trans women who have been prescribed testosterone blockers which is now a common practice; indicates that the results of such studies cannot be used as proof that trans women have an advantage
- “The athletic advantage transgender athletes are perceived to have appears to have been overinterpreted by many sport organisations around the world, which has had a negative effect on the experiences of this population.”