Olympic Committee Announces a Broad Ban of Transgender Athletes in Womens Events

Re:Olympic Committee Announces a Broad Ban of Transgender At... by happymellon on Friday March 27, 2026 @02:30AM (#47539634)

I support trans-rights, and want to weigh one groups of rights against another groups.

Taking one stat which is uncontroversial. AFAB women are are significantly more likely to sustain ACL injuries than men or trans-women: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4805849/

Multiple reasons, but leg placement on the hip means direction change at pace puts more stress on joints, and the cycle appears to cause problems for reasons that AFAIK are still unknown.

It wouldn't shock me if some sports are impacted, but I also know that there are some vocal people on both sides of the opinion that would scream regardless of the outcome.

However we have examples like Ellia Green who, if we used "conventional wisdom" wouldn't have won in the mens Rugby Olympics. The one thing I've learnt is that things that sound important rarely are.

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Re:Olympic Committee Announces a Broad Ban of Transgender At... by ethin on Friday March 27, 2026 @09:03AM (#47542203)

I mean yes but why keep the analysis private? I can think of very few reasons to do that, and one of them is because they know their methodology or data is flawed or inaccurate and they don't want people figuring that out. Obviously this is speculation but I would think they would want data like that to be public, since we want more data on things like this, not less.

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Re:Olympic Committee Announces a Broad Ban of Transgender At... by happymellon on Friday March 27, 2026 @01:42PM (#47545862)

I completely agree.

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