Comment on Trans women should be allowed in sports, but with strict limitations
AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoWhat testosterone level you were at during puberty has a big impact on the size of your bones. So it’s not that simple.
People who had high testosterone during puberty have much bigger hands than people who didn’t, hand size has a impact on sports.
Estiar@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
What sports do you get an advantage with bigger hands? Are we going to get rid of cisgender women who have big hands too for those reasons too? I’m not even sure where you’re getting this hand size thing anyway
AnonomousWolf@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I’d think swimming, but a better example might be basketball.
Going through male puberty would make you taller than you would have otherwise been, and in basketball beign taller gives you an advantage.
Estiar@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
With swimming, one would have to push through more body with the same muscle mass (or even less due to suppressed testosterone instead of natural cis woman levels)
Basketball will have some of the same issues although to a lesser extent, although the natural different variations will still make up for it. My sister (Cisgender) is taller than I am