In recent months and years, the issue of whether or not transgender women should be permitted to compete in women’s sports has become hotly and fiercely debated, but a recent study provides some very interesting conclusions, suggesting that transgender women may actually be at a disadvantage to other women.
According to a recent study financed by the International Olympic Committee, transgender women do not have the clear physical and athletic benefits over other women that critics seem to believe that they do. In fact, there are several areas where transgender women have a disadvantage compared to other women.
“A new study financed by the International Olympic Committee found that transgender female athletes showed greater handgrip strength — an indicator of overall muscle strength — but lower jumping ability, lung function and relative cardiovascular fitness compared with women whose gender was assigned female at birth,” the New York Times reported.
“That data, which also compared trans women with men, contradicted a broad claim often made by proponents of rules that bar transgender women from competing in women’s sports. It also led the study’s authors to caution against a rush to expand such policies, which already bar transgender athletes from a handful of Olympic sports.”
Obviously, this is some pretty significant news, and it led to a lot of reactions on social media.
they're gonna ignore this so hard
— helena hind (@cynicalzoomer) April 23, 2024
Ready for states and athletic institutions to reverse course and apologize. Time for all the grifters to apologize as well. Almost like everything they ever say to cause panic is false…shocker
— clear (@Clearrainbows) April 23, 2024
They don't care about facts, they just want to see trans people gone from everything
— Stellyria (@StellyriaFae) April 23, 2024
Very interesting! I've often said there just isn't enough knowledge about what transitioning does to all the body systems. Certainly not enough to account for the moral panic over women's sport. 🙄
— Alyssa H 🐕🦺♿😷💉🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🍉 (@lyssa__project) April 24, 2024
They'll continue to pretend that the integrity of women's sports is a thing they care DEEPLY about
— Christine Meier (@the_target_lady) April 23, 2024
The anti trans panic doesn't want to look a the actual science. They will continue to ignore it. Because it's bigotry.
— Ve 🇺🇦🇮🇹🏳️🌈🇹🇼🏳️⚧️🇦🇫🇮🇱🇪🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵⚛️ (@Ve10VeGhost) April 24, 2024
We’ll have to see how this influences policies regarding transgender athletes.
