Yeah, I think anyone ignoring the advantage that a transgender female who went through puberty as a male can have over cis gender females in athletics is being wilfully ignorant.
Among athletes, men have something like 60-70% more Lean Body Mass than women. Whereas loss of LBM in male-to-female transgender people after several years of hormone therapy is in the single digits.
That said, obviously the attention it's getting is just right-wing culture war BS. Just like when people who couldn't give a **** about the poor howl about supports for homeless people and water quality on reserves every time the government sends aid to another country.
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