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I have a passion to help &  educate other trans athletes about their own bodies. I suffer many adverse health conditions from not understanding my own post surgery endocrine system early enough before it had damaged my health.
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 This article shows the consequences to health when trans girls experience low T. This is important to educate everyone because in this conversation those against us compare men's performance versus women.
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https://t.co/EOH5dSHrxI
This article also shows trans girls have very different endocrine systems to a healthy male and as such they should not be compared to men when talking about sports performance.
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https://t.co/EOH5dSHrxI
The only comparison you can make between a trans female athlete and a male would be to compare the trans girl to a male that has either been surgically or chemically sterilized.
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You won't even find men competing in elite sports in this health state without being prescribed T replacement therapy which is not available to a trans woman like me in sports.
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Finally there is a paucity of research on trans athletes out there but there is an abundance of research and knowledge on the endocrine systems much has been known for decades.
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Sports need to be looking at how testosterone affects athletes health first way before they look at performance. Sadly they are not doing that & that is why my health has suffered and this is why Kristen Worleys also health suffered and many more.
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https://t.co/EOH5dSHrxI
Athletes caught up in the IAAF/IOC policy on hyperandrogenism were required in order to partake in sport to undergo surgical and/or hormonal interventions unrelated to their health status.
These procedures have been called into question as invasively counterproductive to the wellbeing of those women.
https://t.co/2PaxipfIte
Many incorrectly presumed that, by comparison, transgendered female athletes have no similar health concerns. Their overarching requirement is to keep serum testosterone levels below 5 or 10 nmol/L, and they must submit to hormone tests as evidence of that.
A ten-year struggle by cyclist Worley showed this is not be a simple journey. The intricacies of her story have been deftly summarised by Pierre-Jean Vazel.
https://t.co/GXplQ4lKUz
In essence, Worley underwent gender reassignment via surgery in 2001 and attempted to re-enter the world of sport.
But when she applied for a (TUE) for testosterone (which is a vital hormone for women, as well as men), approval took ten months instead of days or weeks. (Exactly what I am experiencing now myself or has taken months whilst I become unwell.)
https://t.co/GXplQ4lKUz
This put Worley into a “severe post-menopausal state”. It not only impacted on her health, but it prevented her from training as an elite cyclist.
Ultimately, when Worley was permitted a TUE under the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) code, the allowable: levels of synthetic testosterone … were not enough to support her basic health.
We keep seeing Recycling failed policy.

Remarkably, Worley was able to have her case heard outside of CAS and, in a fillip for athlete self-determination, via a tribunal independent of sport.
Worley engaged Cycling Canada, the Ontario Cycling Association & the (UCI) in a formal mediation session at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario. Worley argued for reforms to: … the policies, guidelines, rules and processes surrounding XY female athletes, ....
gender verification and therapeutic use of required hormones that are captured by anti-doping regulations.
In a resounding victory for evidence-based policy, the UCI accepted Worley’s critique and announced it would now support an advocacy initiative to encourage sport’s....
governing bodies, at the highest level, to adopt policies and guidelines that are based in objective scientific research and responsive to the individualised needs of XY female athletes.
The mediation parties agreed to promote this message to the IOC and WADA – the overarching global organisations in the Worley case.

This is why the IOC will never ban us the science exists.....Kristen held global sports to account in the dock.
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There is no other story that incites more hate then a story about a transgender person participating in sport, with the exception of stories relating to transgender bathroom use or in President Trumps World his hate for transgender people serving in the military.
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Let’s remove the words transgender, Laurel, Hannah or Mack Beggs out of the conversation for a minute and let’s look at some of the medical consequences that occur when an XY male suffers low levels of testosterone.
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When a man has low testosterone, or hypogonadism, he may experience:
-Reduced sex drive
-Erectile dysfunction
-Low sperm count
-Enlarged or swollen breast tissue
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Over time, these symptoms may develop in the following ways:
-Loss of body hair
-Loss of muscle bulk
-Loss of strength
-Increased body fat
Chronic, or ongoing, low testosterone may lead to osteoporosis, mood swings, reduced energy, and testicular shrinkage.
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None of these medical consequences are performance enhancing. No castrated XY male has ever broken a world record or even competed at the elite level of sports.
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Female athletes are still subjected to the equivalent of a sex test, based on whether they appear feminine.


Dutee Chand in her successful appeal against the validity of the IAAF’s hyperandrogegism regulations, the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) originally began investigating her after complaints that she “ran like a

Chand was banned in 2014 after the @WorldAthletics decided that her androgen (testosterone) levels were above the 10 nmol/L permitted by the IAAF’s hyperandrogegism regulations, resulting in her missing the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.

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Endocrine profiles in 693 elite athletes in the post-competition setting’, found that 16.5% of the ‘male’ athletes had low testosterone levels, and 13.7% of the ‘females’ had high testosterone levels, ‘with complete overlap between the
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@LaurenMurphyMMA @_Miatonin @AOC There is no no differences in strength between men and women are seen when normalized for muscle cross-sectional

@_Miatonin @AOC It is reductionist (and wrong) to suggest the performance gap is all about biology (e.g. testosterone).

@_Miatonin @AOC Based on the present evidence, it is reasonable to suggest that biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors contribute to the range of gender gaps observed across sports.

@_Miatonin @AOC Men and women exhibit similar relative responses to resistance training, with no gender-specific responses noted after 10-weeks of resistance

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It appears that every time an under-age Transgender person attempts to access medical care to make their lives better conservative people try to say they’re not ready for it.


As an older transgender woman who waited until I my mid 30’s due to those same prevailing attitudes, I feel it’s sad right-wing people are still trotting out those same tired old lines.

According to them, we’re too young to know our gender pre-pubescent and when we start undergoing a puberty which doesn’t align with our gender identity apparently we’re still far too young to access puberty blockers to make the masculinisation process go away.

These people only want us to access medical care after the age of 18 and that’s when it’s far too late for many Trans women, as the whole masculinisation process [which we didn’t want in the first place] has already happened.
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Female athletes are still subjected to the equivalent of a sex test, based on whether they appear feminine.


Dutee Chand in her successful appeal against the validity of the IAAF’s hyperandrogegism regulations, the Athletics Federation of India (AFI) originally began investigating her after complaints that she “ran like a boy”.

Chand was banned in 2014 after the AFI decided that her androgen (testosterone) levels were above the 10 nmol/L permitted by the IAAF’s hyperandrogegism regulations, resulting in her missing the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.


Androgens, including testosterone, are naturally produced in significant – but varying – levels by both men and women.

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