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Kirsti Miller

@KirstiMiller30

Mar 11

6 Australian Trans woman were recognised as Australian GLBTIQ Trailblazers during the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.

The Trans woman were included as 6 of 24 in a landmark exhibition which recognised and celebrated the work of LGBTI groups & orgs in the 53 countries that make up the Commonwealth, to raise the visibility of LGBTI people and their lives during the Commonwealth Games and beyond.

The Australian GLBTIQ Trailblazers were selected as being a first in their field.

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Kirsti Miller

@KirstiMiller30

Mar 10

Tucker, Hilton etc cite Q angle, lung size, bone density & height in XX women – confer a performance advantage for XY trans women, but there is NO support in the literature that these factors confer any such advantage.

link.medium.com/WZuukFsdiob

The Q angle – defined as the angle between a line drawn from the anterior superior iliac spine (ASIS) to the center of the Patella & a second line from the Patella to the Tibial Tubercle & has often been assumed to play a role in generating power during acceleration

and efficiency of a running stride. However, under investigation there appears to be no performance advantage conferred in sport as a result of Q angle, further increased risk of injury attributed to Q angle can be entirely removed with training

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Kirsti Miller

@KirstiMiller30

Mar 10

https://twitter.com/hogshead3au/status/1501719550831775744

In very simple terms for Nancy somebody who receives exogenous testosterone is getting a boost, because their body is processing and benefitting from extra testosterone that their body didn’t produce. This is understood to be why it is effective as a doping agent.

https://twitter.com/hogshead3au/status/1501719550831775744

Whether one can compare the performance of an athlete who has been given exogenous testosterone to take them up to the equivalent testosterone levels of an athlete with high endogenous testosterone remains to be seen.

Such a comparison is potentially problematic, because the athlete given exogenous testosterone is getting a boost, whereas the athlete with high endogenous testosterone is not. High levels of endogenous testosterone are what their physiology is accustomed to.

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Kirsti Miller

@KirstiMiller30

Mar 10

Violence towards people because of their race, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, sex or religion makes me wonder, How long it will be before one’s identity isn’t a risk factor for violence?

Racism, homophobia, transphobia etc is not just sticks & stones. The emotional pain created by experiences of racism, homophobia. Transphobia look very similar to the patterns of brain activity caused by physical pain.

In this sense, suggesting that we can choose whether racism, homophobia, transphobia etc affects us is like saying that people can decide whether a slap across the face is painful or not.

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Kirsti Miller

@KirstiMiller30

Mar 7

Blanket banning trans woman from playing rugby on the basis of risk outcomes of a group level aggregate of physical characteristics that any given individual in this group may demonstrably not possess individually cannot be considered reasonable, proportionate or justified.

This is before we consider the uncomfortable fact that none, zero, zip of the evidence presented by World Rugby involves empirical research of trans women rugby players actually playing rugby or in fact any sport. There were no injuries reported & zero elite trans players.

There is clear evidence that increasing the acceptable period of testosterone suppression further reduces parameters thought to be associated with “meaningful” performance advantage in trans women (which would clearly be more reasonable than banning all trans women).

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Kirsti Miller

@KirstiMiller30

Mar 6

https://twitter.com/kirstimiller30/status/1496107975702122496

Low testosterone elite men are statistically OVERrepresented in elite male sport.

0.5% of ELITE male athletes are naturally below the average for cis female athletes.

25% of ELITE cis male athletes are below 10nmol/L

https://twitter.com/kirstimiller30/status/1496107975702122496

Wait!

This means that for ANY TESTOSTERONE POLICY you pick to exclude ‘men’ from women’s sport WILL. NOT. WORK.

There will always be some elite cis males naturally below that level.

podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/out…

What this means is under the current blanket T rules we could have trans women with natural T levels below 5 or 10 nmol/L even prior to HRT & they could have been elite athletes in the male category.

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