US EditionPhysical fitness of transgender and cisgender women is comparable, current evidence suggests
A review of 52 studies with 6,485 participants found hormone therapy alters muscle and fat but results in similar physical fitness between transgender and cisgender women.
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Physical fitness of transgender and cisgender women is comparable, current evidence suggests
Transgender women might have more muscle mass than cisgender women one to three years after hormone therapy, but their physical fitness is comparable, finds a pooled data analysis of the available evidence, published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.
The inclusion of trans women in female sport has become the battlehorse of a larger cultural war. Positions are fixed according to ideological or moral convictions. However, it also underlies a medical and scientific debate. A debate that is closer to being resolved today. A scientific team in Brazil has developed a meta-analysis that includes 52 studies and 6,485 people, who have analyzed the body composition and physical fitness of trans and c…
expert reaction to study looking at physical fitness of transgender and cisgender women
A study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine looks at the body composition and physical fitness of transgender and cisgender women. Prof Alun Williams FCASES FTPS, Professor of Sport and Exercise Genomics, Manchester Metropolitan University Institute of Sport, said: “The authors have been thorough in gathering relevant literature, but the paper suffers from several problems. “Only longitudinal studies are truly informative, bec…
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The fact that trans women can participate in elite sports competitions and in what conditions generates intense debate, with voices opposed to their participation because of their alleged superiority over cisgenerous women (a term that defines people whose gender identity coincides with the sex assigned at birth) due to the hormone therapy with testosterone they receive.
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