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The group's policy aims to follow testing practices in elite sports. The International Olympic Committee allows trans athletes to compete after medical transition, rules based on a study by transgender researcher Joanna Harper, who is a backer of the group, but not a member.
Harper's study looked at eight trans women runners and found that they were more than 10 percent slower after transitioning with hormones.https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2019/apr/01/sports-transgender-debate-compromise-not-conflict …
LGBTQ+ advocates and trans athletes have largely denounced the working group as a disingenuous attempt to exclude trans girls, created without the input of trans athletes. None of the group's six members is transgender. https://bit.ly/3tzovXF pic.twitter.com/KB6edhlR31
The @APA recommends policies that allow trans kids to play on a sports team consistent with their gender identity, and notes that no study has shown that it impacts the nature of the sport.https://bit.ly/3tzovXF
Trans advocates say an untold number of trans kids are already playing on their schools' teams without issue and that trans athletes come under scrutiny only when they win — a fixation that they say betrays the spirit and intent of sports.https://bit.ly/3tzovXF
"What they're asking for as a complete guarantee on winning," @chelseawolfebmx said. "And winning is not a human right. Participation in sport is a human right."
More from @shoeleatherkate:https://bit.ly/3tzovXF
They need to do more studies. If the data supports no advantage then people will support the policy.
10% slower than they were before, yet still leagues faster than their testosterone disadvantaged opponents (aka actual females)
On average women are faster than men in races going over 200 miles
ITS CRAZY!! And I dont understand why more women arent upset!!! They are still to this day fighting against men for equal rights and respect ,only to have men turn around and say hey we're women too!! And proceed to invade women's spaces, the trans woman in mma was HORRIBLE!!!
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Do transgender girls have an unfair competitive advantage in sports?
The Women's Sports Policy Working Group, created by six scholars and elite athletes, says their proposal provides a "compromise" to this debate.
No trans people are in the group.
