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  • Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca
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    18 hours ago

    pierre poilievre is in lock step with trump on every issue. He is not the person Canada needs. Perhaps he can move to the usa where his ideas fit right in.

  • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 day ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Summer_Olympics_boxing_controversy

    JK can claim she’s a man all she wants, but Imane Khelif was born and raised as a woman - she’s not transgender.

    Regardless, exclusion of transgender people from sports is not backed by the science, current evidence points to trans women having similar fitness and athletic ability as cis women:

    https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2026/01/22/bjsports-2025-110239

    While transgender women exhibited higher lean mass than cisgender women, their physical fitness was comparable.

    transgender women’s VO₂ max, when adjusted for weight, aligns with cisgender women,4 further supporting parity in endurance capabilities

    the absence of strength disparities between transgender women and cisgender women found in the current review was consistent and contradicts narratives framing male puberty as conferring irreversible athletic advantages despite [gender-affirming hormone therapy].

    transgender women’s pretherapy advantages in push-ups and sit-ups disappeared after 2 years of feminising hormones among 46 individuals who started [gender-affirming hormone therapy] while in the US Air Force.

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      Not all trans people are transitioned on hormones, so I guess a relevant question is Are trans athletes required to have been on HRT +testosterone blockers for a minimum time in order to compete in sports? At what level of competition would that be required? How and by whom is that monitored? Is it even possible to monitor if, say, an athlete reduces their T blockers?

        • twopi@lemmy.ca
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          I think you do yourself a disservice by using such incidents. A lot of incidents I see involving trans athletes are just illegal moves rather than advantages of men over women.

          Statistics is a better measure as it is with statistics you can get a feel of performance instead of one off games.

          Though I think the burden of proof falls on the trans athletes. Since the differences between the sexes has survived the null hypothesis, trans athletes need to prove their performance is not in line with their birth sex.

        • AnalogHole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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          12 hours ago

          You obviously have no critical faculties and cant see past your own ignorance.

          The science doesnt agree with you. After about two years there isnt any significant competitive advantage and certainly none at the elite level. They arent biological males, they are biological trans women.

          I suppose you think Imane Khelif should be banned too because she isnt estrogen enough for you, right? How much testosterone is too much for you? Is she biological woman enough to compete? How many of these athletes have more T than the trans athletes? This is a non issue dreamed up to get ignorant sheep worked up to keep them angry and controlled. And it has nothing to do with cis women’s rights; you are just an idiot ❤️.