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   Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged) (taylan@fedi.feministwiki.org)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 15:00:32 JST Taylan (Now 18% More Deranged)
   Soccer team consisting entirely of FtM trans individuals debuts in men's league, losing their first match 19 - 0.
   
   https://www.boredpanda.com/spains-first-trans-football-team-debuts-in-male-league/
   
   I didn't understand at first that the 19 - 0 was the score of a single match. :blobcat-shockedcrown: I thought it means they lost 19 matches in a row with no wins, which I think would be less devastating than a 19 - 0 score on a single match.
   
   Apparently the team doesn't really consist of professionals. Difficult to find that many FtM soccer players with good skills I guess.
   
   And then of course there's the elephant in the room, which is sex differences in sport. A female person, whose testosterone levels are raised to that of an average male, is probably still going to have significant disadvantages due to tons of anatomic differences that add up throughout the growth of the human body from infancy to adulthood under the effect of androgens or estrogens. Differences in sports performance already exist before puberty.
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     The Dread Slender Gnome (gnomeshatecheese@spinster.xyz)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 18:32:43 JST The Dread Slender Gnome

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     @taylan

     A female person, whose testosterone levels are raised to that of an average male, is probably still going to have significant disadvantages

     If this was not the case, the East German female athletes pumped full of anabolic steroids would've achieved men's performance levels in a way that would've been obvious to everyone.

     They didn't. They just dominated women's competitions.

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