• @[email protected]
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    13 hours ago

    I know trans athletes excelling at their chosen sports is exceptionally rare, but is there already one website that has all the historical and updated statistics that so far show there’s no significant statistical trans advantage(transvantage!) that we can see from trans athletes going back decades?

    so every time someone says “sure but if you used to be a boy, then the muscle fibers-”

    and you can just be like “go to this site”.

    “here are the numbers”.

    when I looked up the numbers last year, I had to pop around to many different sites and read different articles, but I imagine somewhere someone must have already pulled all this together.

    • Sunshine OP
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      315 hours ago

      Can you please provide the link to the website?

      • @[email protected]
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        313 hours ago

        That’s what I’m looking for.

        when I looked before there was just a whole bunch of different websites and I had to find one athlete at a time or one statistic at a time, but there must be some website that has centralized those numbers somewhere.

        I was hoping someone here would know.

        maybe there isn’t one yet.

        • @Cypher
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          211 hours ago

          If a site tracking that data proved there was an advantage would it change your opinion on trans inclusion in sports?

          • @[email protected]
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            111 hours ago

            Yes, that’s why I looked it up in the first place.

            in the beginning, I was like I don’t know. would they have a huge advantage?

            I know Serena Williams said she never wanted to play against men because she thought they were faster and stronger, but then Billie Jean King won the battle of the sexes so…

            then after Rogan talked about the one trans weightlifter and everyone lost their mind about trans athletes via extrapolation, I was like oh shit. is that happening all the time?

            so I looked it up, and it’s like no, that’s the only trans athlete that has ever excelled in their chosen sport.

            an anomaly.

            but yeah of course, if the data comes out and it turns out that Trans women are crushing in 90% of strength sports then some acknowledgment or accommodation would have to be made.

            which I think would be as simple as an asterisk* or open leagues.

            so far, there’s no data supporting that weird groupthink floating around, though.

            men who become women don’t seem to have any significant statistical advantage in sports, as far as I can find.