Males in Female Sports
On NPR, LGBTQ+ reporter Kate Sosin claimed that a “2021 study published in the Journal of Sports Medicine” found “no basis in existing research for banning trans women from sports.”
IN FACT, the study actually found that “strength, lean body mass, muscle size and bone density are only trivially affected” by the testosterone suppression meds that males use to compete in female sports, and this gives them a “major performance” advantage and has “safety implications.”
Likewise, a 2021 study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that lean body mass and muscle area “in transwomen remain above those” of biological women “even after 36 months of hormone therapy.”
Summarizing the evidence, a 2024 paper in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports concluded that the Olympic Committee’s framework for transgender competitors “does not protect fairness for female athletes.”
