Actually knew what that was. And also know that Hubbard has not had it.
You can say what you want, but when the average testosterone level for an adult female is .61 - 2.98 nmol/L (1) and Hubbard must be under 10 nmol/L, that is not a level playing field. Especially in weightlifting.
And you know what, I may be wrong. But I don't think the 62% of people who think people should play on teams that match their birth gender (2) are going to be impressed seeing Hubbard on TV. That number may in fact rise.
I have seen first hand how this happens as kids age. One swim team had an annual meet where boys and girls were combined in a heat by time, but scored separately. Under 10 the girls would usually win, probably because they had better body control. But once the boys started hitting puberty, they left the girls in the dust.
I am not against trans people competing, I just am not convinced it is fair to the biological girls.
(1)
https://account.allinahealth.org/library/content/49/150064
(2)
https://news.gallup.com/poll/350174/mixed-views-among-americans-transgender-issues.aspx
I said this to you on the PRSI thread, and I will say so once more here:
Every time you throw around unscientific language like “biological
x” and then continue to do so even
after you get steered toward peer-reviewed references and other juried papers (which not only dispel myths on the endocrinology of trans bodies, but also discourage language like “biological x”), this is telling me you actually don’t want to learn a damn thing about trans bodies or trans lives, but you sure
do want to make a lotta hot takes and hay about our bodies and lives anyway — as if you walk on moral-ethical high ground as some god fearin’, red-blooded cishet American with a giant truck.
You don’t.
And so, I watch you as you find new, contorted ways to rationalize your badly-veiled contempt for trans people who actually are able to do things on our own terms! That makes you not only a killjoy, but also (wincing at myself for using a word I virtually speak for anyone, ever), a basic bigot. You should want to be a better person than that.
At least,
I sure would.
Lauren Hubbard (for once, just once, try —
try — to eat your green eggs and ham: avoid the misgendering; the linguistic contortions of using only her surname; or dancing around the fact that Lauren is,
ipso facto, a woman)
is qualified to compete. Lauren’s T levels have not only remained lower and certified as such over an extended time — more than satisfying the IOC and her sporting body’s rules — but those highly scrutinized levels must remain lower than that which is a
nominal endogenous level for cis women (who, I might want to add, don’t have PCOS). Thus, she has more than satisfied the minimum requirements to complete in her sport, as herself, over this next fortnight. And the fact she’s able to do this just three years after breaking her elbow in previous competition and also as a possibility model for many trans kids who’ll learn about her is hecking gold in of itself.
Over and done. Let it die.
Susie the White Supremacist Soccer Mom
will never read this, but maybe you will, idk.
www.cyclingnews.com
www.vox.com
