If female athletes are using PEDs, how do they avoid masculinization?

Are you blind? Lots of them have masculinized....They start wearing lots of makeup and shirts to hide the muscles but it's still obvious.

Steroid usage is relatively low in the modern era. Its hard to get away with.

When female athletes were abusing steroids they DID suffer the side effects of masculinization. Just look at the women's 800m world record holder Jarmila Kratochvilova:

But nowadays most doping is done through EPO, which only affects the concentration of your red blood cells, not your testosterone/estrogen balance. EPO does not cause noticable masculinization.

Go to a professional meet- something like the Pre Classic. See it in person for yourself. There are some where it has been blatantly obvious in the past, but the newer drugs don't have many of the previous unwanted side effects

Really? That’s hot. Mustache not so much. Shoulders are neutral.

Huh? Compare steroid Drug Cheat Decker, Drug Cheat Jones, Drug Cheat Jacobs, and Drug Cheat Houlihan. You'll notice differences related to their preferred distances, but not so much a correlation with the decade.

The only difference are the female dopers from the 80s from the Soviet block, who abused steroids like there was no tomorrow. Read the reports about the health problems of athletes from the GDR that came out some 20 years ago.

But yes, with the steroids being heavily restricted by modern drug tests, you don't otherwise get as many of the more extreme anabolic side effects. It really says something that Naser - a known drug whereabouts cheat with short hair and veins sticking out of her engorged shoulders - still looks and sounds far more feminine than some of the 80s runners.

I was a national class bodybuilder back in the 1980s. Anavar (oxandrolone) is not a "weak" anabolic steroid but in fact is highly anabolic & very low androgenically (it's the lowest androgenic oral steroid every created).

I knew some female bodybuilders from my bodybuilding gym back then that used Anavar as their only oral steroid (usually they stacked it with Deca - a low androgenic injectable).

I didn't noticed any masculinization with changes in their voice, facial hair, body hair, etc. They got pretty muscular & ripped on that stack but still looked very much female (I was dating one during my time as a bodybuilder).

Isn't growth hormone & growth hormone peptides popular with women T&F athletes today? 🤔

The assumption that all or many PEDs will lead to masculine appearances is faulty. Certainly many anabolics will. There's tons of PEDs to help with recovery or cardiovascular gains.

Elite (full time drug using) Kenyan females have the hairlines of a 45 year old balding male.

Dibaba translated means: Mustache.

No side effects......GTFO.

Gout Gout is 16 and has a hairline like that as well.