Doesn't matter
Pretty much anything you read on this subject will be biased until you get to the sciency studies that everybody cherry picks from.
https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/a-look-at-the-numbers-and-times-no-denying-the-advantages-of-lia-thomas/
It takes a tiny difference to go from run-of-the-mill to world dominating. This guy was nothing as a male swimmer. He became, sorry, she became a superstar when competing against biological women.
As of 2021 they were pretty sure that the year difference was not enough.
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/trans-women-retain-athletic-edge-after-year-hormone-therapy-study-n1252764
And these guys, who are far more experienced in the subject than either of us are sure that advantage is a lot longer.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9331831/
I'm not saying that every guy who turns into a woman somehow, according to whatever the medical / legal definitions are, are at an advantage over every CIS woman. But there are enough of them that they impact whatever sport they choose to get into and compete.
Sports are a matter of shaving seconds and sometimes hundredths of a second from a score. The tiniest difference matters here.
The people who mature as men and are now women have certain obvious advantages no matter what their testosterone levels are or what their BMI is or whatever the current measurement is. In the cases where this does not give them an advantage then we don't hear about it because we don't care about the losers. We just want to know who the winners are and whether or not they cheated to get there.
This is cheating. You already said they have an advantage, just not very much. You are supporting the cheaters.
https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/a-look-at-the-numbers-and-times-no-denying-the-advantages-of-lia-thomas/
It takes a tiny difference to go from run-of-the-mill to world dominating. This guy was nothing as a male swimmer. He became, sorry, she became a superstar when competing against biological women.
As of 2021 they were pretty sure that the year difference was not enough.
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/trans-women-retain-athletic-edge-after-year-hormone-therapy-study-n1252764
And these guys, who are far more experienced in the subject than either of us are sure that advantage is a lot longer.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9331831/
I'm not saying that every guy who turns into a woman somehow, according to whatever the medical / legal definitions are, are at an advantage over every CIS woman. But there are enough of them that they impact whatever sport they choose to get into and compete.
Sports are a matter of shaving seconds and sometimes hundredths of a second from a score. The tiniest difference matters here.
The people who mature as men and are now women have certain obvious advantages no matter what their testosterone levels are or what their BMI is or whatever the current measurement is. In the cases where this does not give them an advantage then we don't hear about it because we don't care about the losers. We just want to know who the winners are and whether or not they cheated to get there.
This is cheating. You already said they have an advantage, just not very much. You are supporting the cheaters.
