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A man can cast 150 yards, but I can only cast about 70 yards. Some of the girls can only cast 50 yards. Body strength plays a major part and it gives Becky Lee a lot more water that she can fish in.”

The claim in the article is incredibly weak, especially versus the studies. I put this video at that the appropriate timestamp to hear someone go in depth on it, or click any of their sources for the raw science. But fair warning, it's not light reading.

The TL:DR is that Trans Women after 2 years of hormones, show no statistical difference from cis women in any athletic or cardiovascular actives. This is the basis that every major sports league, including the Olympics requires. In fact, the only time where it MIGHT be a factor is trans men having an advantage over cis men, but no one panics about that because assigned female at birth trans men are just assumed to be weak right? The entire premise that your genitals, assigned sex at birth or "male/female bones" overrides your endocrine system is based in bias, not fact.

Yes higher T generally coincides with more strength, but that fact entirely misses the point that trans women don't have much. It is VERY common for trans women to have lower T levels in their system versus cis women for a pretty obvious reason, one group is actively taking medication suppress it. (Or have had surgery to remove testes, where most T production occurs)

66-year-old team captain Heather told the Daily Mail that the team has already been “humiliated” with Hodges in their team. She claimed that the 2018 world championships “wasn’t a nice situation, mainly because all the other countries wouldn’t speak to us.”

‘The managers wouldn’t speak to our manager. They were all against us. When we went up to collect our medal, nobody clapped and people walked out,” Heather said, adding, “Although Becky Lee would be an asset to my team, it’s unfair on everyone else. And if you win in a situation like that, you can’t enjoy the victory, because it feels like you’ve cheated.”

Sounds like she's more upset that bigots decided to be bigoted, and that to her, the real problem is she doesn't get to be praised by bigots anymore.

“Many of the Angling Trust board members don’t fish and don’t know the sport. A man can cast 150 yards, but I can only cast about 70 yards. Some of the girls can only cast 50 yards. Body strength plays a major part and it gives Becky Lee a lot more water that she can fish in.”

Trans women, of course, are not men and are often receiving gender-affirming health care that lowers their testosterone levels.

Their anecdotes don't mean shit against the voluminous scientific evidence that trans women simply do not have enough of an advantage to justify discrimination.

The only person in the article claiming that there is unfair advantage is the 66-year-old coach who is upset that players from other countries don't celebrate them anymore, and instead of chalking that up to them being bigoted jerks, she chalks it up to "we need to kick out the trans person because bigots aren't nice to us anymore." I'm just gonna go out on a fucking limb and assume her age has something to do with being a totally out of touch fucking nitwit, and why she would defend the bigots instead of telling them to pound fucking sand.

Also, let's not forget that this interview was with The Daily Mail a well known conservative shitrag that pushes conservative politics. This 66 year old fucking fossil chose this as the place to give her concerns. She chose a conservative propaganda shitrag, that's on her and speaks loudly to her shitty politics.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12552627/England-ladies-angling-team-refuse-compete-world-championships-trans-woman.html

That's where this interview was originally from. It's a fucking propaganda shitrag.