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Biological diversity in sports
The reality is that both cisgender and transgender athletes have biological differences (and even potential advantages).
But these advantages are only strictly regulated in trans athletes, and sometimes even used as an argument to exclude them from sports.
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Double standards in sports
Michael Phelps, the winningest Olympian of all time, has a genetic advantage which causes him to produce only half the lactic acid levels (which causes muscle fatigue) of the typical athlete.
Caster Semenya, an Olympic runner, is believed to have intersex traits
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Trans children do NOT need to be tested to participate in sports
There are no differences in circulating testosterone between those assigned male at birth and those assigned female before Tanner stage II of puberty. The only s...
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Policing trans bodies in sports affects women
Genital exams, genotyping, and hormone evaluations are used as methods of verifying if someone is transgender or not to exclude them from participating in sports.
These methods are enforced by:
- Checking every single athlete who participates (logistically & fi...
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Let's talk about fairness
Many people don’t care about sports or fairness until a transgender person wants to participate. If people truly want to bring fairness to the forefront, then they’d talk about barriers to the access to sports: socioeconomic disparity, often intertwined with systemic oppression such as ra...
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Do Trans atheletes have an advantage?
The first argument against trans atheletes participating in sport is usually about how testosterone levels give an unfair advantage for trans women competing in women's sports. However, testosterone levels are strictly regulated for trans athletes who compete in elite-level sport...
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The Inclusion of Transgender Athletes - schuylerbailar - pinkmantaray
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Just a queer, brown, psychology undergraduate ranting about random things I come across. I organize my thoughts in little, informative chunks and try to cite my sources. #psychology #society #marxism #philosophy #leftist #LGBTQ #gay #trans #queer
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