According to Ross Tucker, a sports scientist and consultant for World Rugby, the IOC looked for a way that would allow trans women to compete without their pre-existing male advantage. It seized gratefully upon a study by a trans woman, Joanna Harper, purporting to show that a modest reduction in testosterone pretty much removed the male sporting advantage. Harper asked eight recreational runners, all trans women, to recall how fast they had run before they had started to take cross-sex hormones, and concluded that their speeds had fallen by 10-12 per cent. The IOC committee that decided, on this slender basis, to open up women’s sports to males contained not a single woman._____
Better science suggests that the IOC got it terribly wrong. Research teams in Sweden and South Africa are tracking transitioning male athletes undergoing testosterone suppression—and the early results suggest that after a year muscle mass falls by just a few per cent, and muscle strength does not fall at all. In other words, their male advantage is retained. That advantage is so great that despite their tiny numbers trans women will soon dominate podiums across women’s sports and set records that no female can hope to beat.
Oh, my god. That is all.
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John Kasich doesn't even hide his contempt for Trump, but it isn't because he cares about him. It is all about John Kasich's ambitions.
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Video of the day is here.
I am not embedding it here because it could be taken down.
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