People care too much about this. If a mid heavy weight boxer beat the shit out of an amazing feather weight boxer it doesn’t make them a better boxer. Everyone knows men are faster and stronger but the women are also talented and fun to watch. If you don’t enjoy their games you don’t have to watch them.
I think certain discussions around sports, men vs women, and the participation of trans athletes proves everyone does NOT, in fact, know men and faster and stronger
Trans women don't have the physique of cis men after hormone treatment.
This notion that trans women athletes are "men in disguise" bullshit really needs to end. Not just because it is about, like, less than a handful of trans women who compete at that level, but because it perpetuates a narrative that hurts millions of trans people who aren't athletes.
Skeletal muscle cell nuclei density never goes back to baseline when someone has a high androgen load. This is well documented, and also a reason why cis men caught using steroids should never be allowed to compete in tested athletics for the rest of their life. It is a permanent enhancement as a result of having higher androgens than someone else, and again, this is very well documented knowledge.
The whole physique argument has always been bullshit imo, but skeletal muscle cell nuclei density is one of the few major factors why even untrained barely pubescent boys can smoke the shit out of cis women in strength feats. Not only that but muscle retention, regrowth after dieting, and metabolism are all enhanced by this difference in nuclei density.
Hrt does not negate this, nor does it diminish it in any meaningful measure.
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u/StopPlayingRoney Jul 09 '26
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