I was slightly on the fence about the trans people in sports debate (albeit always "I just want there to be better studies so trans people have good evidence for inclusion" rather than, well, how stupidpol approaches it) and this post seemed like a good summary of the current evidence: https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/l25vt2/comment/gk3hhqh
Particularly this was interesting, BMD referring to... bone density, I think:
Trans women appear to be biologically (probably even genetically) a distinct population from cis men even at birth; what we know about cis men does not necessarily carry over to trans women. For example, we have known for a while that statistically, trans women have lower BMD than cis men and a recent study from Brazil indicates that BMD of at least Caucasian trans women (even pre-transition) may be comparable to that of cis women rather than that of cis men; the causes may be in part genetic.
Albeit I'd half-joke that the bone density difference could also be because transgender women are so thin. God, I met up with a trans woman friend a few weeks ago, who I haven't seen in 5 years, and she was painfully thin, please eat more.
I was slightly on the fence about the trans people in sports debate (albeit always "I just want there to be better studies so trans people have good evidence for inclusion" rather than, well, how stupidpol approaches it) and this post seemed like a good summary of the current evidence: https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/l25vt2/comment/gk3hhqh
Particularly this was interesting, BMD referring to... bone density, I think:
Albeit I'd half-joke that the bone density difference could also be because transgender women are so thin. God, I met up with a trans woman friend a few weeks ago, who I haven't seen in 5 years, and she was painfully thin, please eat more.
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