The Tokyo Olympics will feature the first openly trans athlete as the debate over trans women and girl's participation in female sports heats up.
does suggest that trans women are faster, but [it] didn't measure training in any way. They are still going to be bigger than cis women.
Now, of course, what you really want to know is how big are the trans women playing rugby versus the cis women playing rugby? We don't have any data on that. But as a population group, trans women are bigger than cis women, so there's definitely some reason for concern over a potential safety issue.I don't think that banning trans women is the right approach.
The question is: How big are the women playing rugby? We don't know that. We've applied for a grant from World Rugby to study that question. Hopefully, they'llBy the way, World Rugby only looks at international-level rugby, and no openly trans woman has ever played an international rugby match. So, the total risk increase from trans women in international rugby is zero so far because there are no trans women.
That was my suggestion to World Rugby, but they didn't take it. No trans women are currently banned from rugby, because as it stands right now in the international game, there are none good enough. We'll see what develops in the future.Absolutely.
How do these disadvantages play out? We don’t know yet because the research is very early on. But the idea that trans women only have advantages just isn't true. The analogy I've used is that it's like a big car with a small engine competing against a small car with a small engine.Trans men are allowed to inject testosterone and no other athletes are allowed to do that.
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