cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/40174373

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a pioneer for LGBTQ+ rights who decades ago upset leaders in his own party when he defied state law and issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples, suggested Democrats were in the wrong in allowing transgender athletes to participate in female college and youth sports.

    • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
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      2 days ago

      Okay, to begin, you ought to have just linked to the study, not given us an extra step with an article referencing the study.

      https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/56/22/1292

      Frankly, if you think you can draw a generalizable comparison of athletic performance from a study on 45 non-athletes (that very conspicuously doesn’t include any trans men), from grip strength and treadmill performance alone then you shouldn’t be doing any generalizing.

      Here’s a more comprehensive study on a similar number of actual athletes (including trans men):

      https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/bjsports/early/2024/04/10/bjsports-2023-108029.full.pdf

      Here’s it’s conclusion:

      This research compares transgender male and transgender female athletes to their cisgender counterparts. Compared with cisgender women, transgender women have decreased lung function, increasing their work in breathing. Regardless of fat-free mass distribution, transgender women performed worse on the countermovement jump than cisgender women and men. Although transgender women have comparable absolute V̇O2 max values to cisgender women, when normalised for body weight, transgender women’s cardiovascular fitness is lower than cisgender men and women. Therefore, this research shows the potential complexity of transgender athlete physiology and its effects on the laboratory measures of physical performance. A long-term longitudinal study is needed to confirm whether these findings are directly related to gender-affirming hormone therapy owing to the study’s shortcomings, particularly its cross-sectional design and limited sample size, which make confirming the causal effect of gender-affirmative care on sports performance problematic.