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Originally Posted by Sliver
If a transition from MtoF begins after puberty, then it obviously becomes more difficult. Does just lowering testosterone even the playing field so it's a fair competition between MtoF trans and CIS females? I don't know. I have one customer who is MtoF trans and she's as big as I am. If she were to join - say - wrestling or boxing or something, I don't see how she wouldn't dominate. Like, even if you could reduce her muscle mass then she would still have a huge reach, larger hands, etc. I can't see it being fair.
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My understanding is, if you adjust for height and weight, there's still a difference but it's not considerable. So the thinking goes, since we don't restrict for height and weight in female sports, then we shouldn't restrict male-to-female transgender athletes who transitioned post-puberty.
But that seems a bit hand wavy to me, because a person who transitioned from male to female post puberty is going to be significantly more likely to be larger, heavier, and stronger than a cis gendered female.
I mean, there's a reason why female-to-male transgender athletes generally can't compete in women's classifications if they're on testosterone, and that's because they'll have an unfair advantage. Which also means that governing bodies are basically OK with effectively barring FtoM transgender athletes from competing at high levels (since it's very unlikely that that person would be competitive in the male categories of most sports).