Keep having this conversation: Them: "Evidence says that trans women have an advantage over cis women in sport. It's science!" Me: "What evidence?" T: "Uh..." *searches frantically for evidence* ... T: "We don't need evidence it's obvious"
But that's not the question we're asking. We want to know whether trans athletes have and/or retain a competitive advantage. The null would be that they don't, and there's currently no reason to discard that position
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That's not accurate. The question could equally be phrased: do bio XY ppl lose bio male advantage on transitioning? The null would then assume that they don't lose it. Why would we assume, a priori, something multifactorial is wholly reversed by a monofactorial (T/E axis) change?
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FWIW IMO the question is broader than physical advantage. Trans inclusivity matters and fairness isn't clear cut w differences in sexual development, intersex athletes, lots of complexity. But it does TRAs no favours to imply it's 'phobic to say there's v likely bio advantage.
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I made no claims to phobia, my statement was in reference to evidence
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Describing something as a null hypothesis absolutely does not imply that it ought to be accepted as truth until shown to be otherwise.
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Also, what you're doing here is intellectually dishonest. We have all sorts of knowledge that doesn't come from quantitative, academic studies in perfectly ideal contexts. Suggesting otherwise is silly.
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