Wiik et al 2020 is one of 11 longitudinal studies of mass/strength in TW (some covering over 200 subjects), before and after intervention, all well within IOC limits.
@Lux48098905@JulietLine@ChardonnayM@CStaffordSmith In total, those 11 studies cover measurements of mass and/or strength in more than 800 TW, before and after 1-3 years of treatment, all well within IOC limits.
Please don’t tell me you’ve been fooled by the coincidence of 11 studies, one of which contains 11 participants. 😂
On the left, the relevant section of the WR guideline.
On the right, the list of references for the above section, with my annotations of participant number.
@Lux48098905@JulietLine@ChardonnayM@CStaffordSmith WR references 10 cohorts; they elected not to use Haraldsen et al 2007 (12 participants), I presume because this cohort were not suppressing testosterone directly and the changes in muscle are apparently minute.
Dr Lundberg is the coauthor of an original study (the one that happens to contain 11 participants) *and* the corresponding author of a review of 11 longitudinal studies (one of which is his).
@Lux48098905@JulietLine@ChardonnayM@CStaffordSmith Are you sure you’ve understood your conversations with Tommy, when he’s talked variously about his own cohort (11 TW) and/or our collected dataset (11 cohorts)?
All they do is leave me with stripes/patchy legs. I cannot, for the life of me, get them onto my legs in any semblance of uniformity.
Tights need some resistance to ensure the weave lies evenly and springs back when you rub them or pick off a bit of fluff.
I am unable to fashion a suitable Tubigrip applicator shape with my hands, so am currently sporting vertical stripes on my calves, pale patches on my shins and horizontal stripes on my thighs.
Three years ago, the Conservative government launched a consultation on a somewhat esoteric piece of legislation concerning the rights of trans people to alter their birth certificate and legal sex.
The proposed changes included ‘self ID’, a radical departure from the current system of careful assessment and mindful transition for those suffering dysphoria.
Self ID would have allowed acquisition of legal sex based on no more than a sworn declaration. But, in reality, the sworn declaration was lip service.
Yesterday evening saw an interesting chat with French colleagues about adapting to gender neutrality/gender changes in a language where so much is gendered.
It seems we may have it easier in English.
French extends beyond pronouns into nouns, adjectives etc. Not even ‘they’ is neutral.
The week before saw a comparison of gendered words between different gendered languages (French v Russian).
Example: Is ‘boat’ masculine across gendered languages? English language convention sees ‘boat’ (and other vehicles?) as feminine, despite no gendered noun.
Lots of clever people noticing the basic flaw with the current argument being presented to @WorldRugby.
If even ‘starved’ untrained transwomen retain 20-40% muscle/strength than matched females, how can one argue that trained transwomen will reach parity?
The premise of ‘nobody has studied changes in athletes’ implies that athletes:
1. will respond differently to the general population to T suppression. 2. will somehow become more similar to females than the untrained population, who retain a 20-40% over matched females.
The proposed biological mechanisms etc to support these implications are never clarified.
1. There is very solid rationale to believe that transwomen athletes will respond differently to the general population to T suppression.
A matter of months ago, the NHS were advising that puberty blockers were reversible.
It is not unreasonable for the average person to take this on authority and to share this as an authority view.
It is not unreasonable for medics, scientists and other relevant experts to question the NHS advice on puberty blockers, and to draw attention to inaccuracies or misrepresentations.
It is not unreasonable for the NHS to alter or update their advice on puberty blockers after a fuller assessment of the evidence laid before them.