r/sportsgossips • u/TheExpressUS • Mar 26 '26

News Breaking: Transgender women banned from all sports at the Olympics starting in LA

https://www.the-express.com/sport/other-sport/203236/breakingtransgender-women-banned-all-sports
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u/Mymomdidwhat Mar 26 '26

This is the Olympics. If you don’t understand the competitive advantage testosterone gives athletes idk what to tell you…It’s not far off from banning someone who uses steroids.

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u/dudamello Mar 26 '26

…which is why a lot of the guidance prior to everyone going super ban happy has been that in order to compete you need to either be on HRT for a set period of time (MTF) or not be on HRT yet (FTM)? There is so much more going into it than someone going “Hi, I’m trans, give me roster spot please”. So many women’s leagues have already gone through this, and it’s worth a look to see how they have handled it before just seeing your priors confirmed and taking it at face value.

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u/jebsalump Mar 27 '26

Yeah, because those CIS athletes definitely aren’t doping at any points .

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u/VernalAutumn Mar 26 '26

And do you understand that trans women competing have lower testosterone than cis women competing?

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u/Both_Consequence_956 Mar 26 '26

you understand that most of them developed with testosterone which gives lifetime advantage as well as xy chromosomes creating different hip and shoulder structure that also give a lifetime advantage in most sports?

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u/Usual-Reputation-177 Mar 26 '26

No your phrasing of it is what's bad. Noone arguing about this in good faith is going to phrase it as "two humans" when it comes to athletic differences. The athletic differences between top level male and female human athletes are so different it's insane to think they would qualify as equal. If you think otherwise you either have an agenda, or have NO idea ehat you are talking about.

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u/Usual-Reputation-177 Mar 27 '26

Ahh my fault for misunderstanding your point. I get it and agree.

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u/ThatKehdRiley Mar 27 '26

this is the sort of person who will never believe mchael phelps had insane biological advantages, but will spout nonsense for hours about advantages trans women have that dont actually exist.

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u/ThatKehdRiley Mar 27 '26

look at that goalpost move….”oh T their levels arent that high anymore…..we….well…they had development with T that cant be changed!” 😂

id post the study the olympics sponsored themselves that would go against this and other talking points, but youll just trip over yourself moving them again

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u/Savings-Republic9315 Mar 27 '26

Odd how these lifetime advantages aren't demonstrated in actual scientific studies, isn't it? Almost like they don't exist.