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Originally Posted by Quantum Boy
Its irrelevant that plenty or even most trans competitors wouldn't have an advantage, the case by case scenario you're proposing is a logistical impossibility and the clear examples where trans women do have biological advantage - even if you're correct and those are fringe examples - would mean that the top tier of those sports would be dominated by trans women.
The fact that there are already multiple clear real-world examples of this across multiple sports, whilst in your own words, "there are so few trans people and such little participation from trans people in professional sport", is actually proof of what you're denying. If participation is low then the number of examples of trans competitors in upper tiers must be disproportionate to scale, and thus is evidence of biological advantage for some trans individuals, even if "most trans people" don't have that advantage. That's how professional competition works.
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But there aren’t an abundance of trans women dominating women’s sports.
I mean, there has been one trans Olympic gold medalist, Quinn, who was born female.
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Transgender women performed worse than cisgender women in tests measuring lower-body strength
Transgender women performed worse than cisgender women in tests measuring lung function
Transgender women had a higher percentage of fat mass, lower fat-free mass, and weaker handgrip strength compared to cisgender men
Transgender women’s bone density was found to be equivalent to that of cisgender women, which is linked to muscle strength
There were no meaningful differences found between the two groups’ hemoglobin profiles (a key factor in athletic performance)