British female Olympians argue against ‘unfair’ trans women athletes Globe_Sports
When trans women take cross-sex hormones their body fat increases and muscle mass decreases, while production of testosterone falls.
McKinnon, the cyclist, said such claims were “not based in fact”. “Not one trans person has ever qualified for an Olympics, let alone won a medal,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. A 2015 study of eight male to female trans runners by medical physicist and trans woman Joanna Harper found their race times slowed so much that they retained no advantage over non-trans women.
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