xzcvzxcv wrote:
If they hadn't undergone any hormonal or surgical treatment, then you don't need any additional research to know that men on average are physically stronger and faster than women. If they had, then you'd have to go through the research, and some of it shows no advantage. The problem is to focus on the range of testosterone permitted in the study. Those like the champion 800m runners of a few years back had five to ten times the testosterone of typical women, while those with fewer apparent advantages may have brought their testosterone down much closer to the average woman. But obviously, untreated men have a 10+% advantage just in wr's in track.
It is all too easy but a red herring to jump from the 10% mean male advantage to concluding that trans women are advantaged. If they truly are, the numbers will eventually show that trans women winners as a fraction of all trans women is higher than women winners as a fraction of all women.
Right now that is not happening, rather what is happening is more like the doping fallacy: haters conflating any trans women wins with an advantage.


