#transgender-athletes

#transgender-athletes

While current evidence is low and varies in quality, it "does not support theories of inherent athletic advantages for transgender women over cisgender," the authors wrote. "Empirical evidence challenges initial concerns that transgender women would dominate women's sports, largely due to the physiological effects of testosterone suppression therapy," they noted. "In fact, transgender women remain under-represented in elite athletics, highlighting the lack of dominance by transgender athletes in practice."

The findings of the review note that transgender women exhibit strength and fitness levels similar to cisgender women after undergoing months of hormone replacement therapy. The review involved scientists in Brazil collating and analysing findings from around 50 studies involving a total of 6,485 people, including 2,943 trans women, 2,309 trans men, 568 cis women and 665 cis men, all between the ages of 14 and 41.

After receiving feedback from key external stakeholders about the fit between Professor Suski and the university's vacancy, the university has decided to go a different direction in filling the vacancy," university officials wrote in a statement Wednesday. "University officials are very grateful for Professor Suski's interest in the position and continue to hold Professor Suski in high regard. We wish Professor Suski well as she moves forward with her career.

"When she was in junior high and participating on the other gender sports team in cross-country and track and starting to understand who she was, she wasn't fully there," Norcross recalled. "Her saying, 'I'm participating on the girls team,' and the joy and acceptance that was there was amazing."

A Lake Tahoe school district is caught between California and Nevada's different policies on transgender student athletes, a dispute that's poised to reorder where the district's students compete. High schools in California's Tahoe-Truckee Unified School District, near the border with Nevada, have for decades competed in the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association, or NIAA. That has allowed sports teams to avoid making frequent and potentially hazardous trips in poor winter weather to competitions farther to the west, district officials say.

That's a tricky question. I have nothing to do against [trans people], but I feel like they still got a huge advantage over the woman, and I think it's just not fair to the woman to basically face biologically a man. It's not fair, the woman been working her whole life to reach her limit, and then she has to face a man, which is biologically much stronger, so for me I don't agree with this kind of stuff in sport.

According to independent journalist Marisa Kabas, who first reported the news in her newsletter The Handbasket this week, the policy change was made to comply with a February 5 executive order rescinding federal funding for educational programs that allow trans women and girls to participate in women's and girls' athletics programs. Kabas reports that the change came in response to a directive from the US Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

I have been swimming in sanctioned events for over 30 years, and I am prepared to let it all go,

if the suspension is the price she has to pay to "protect my most intimate medical information" then she is "happy to pay".