• gustofwind@lemmy.world
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    Shocking new study reveals it is actually winners who have a fitness advantage over losers

    Several athletic organizations have called for a review of all victories to establish whether they were earned through fitness advantage.

    Drafter of the Ladies Olympic Systems of Restitution (LOSeR) guidelines, Harvey Priestein, has confirmed that most victories must be acquired through pure chance. However, fitness advantaged women may compete during a retrograde event.

    The LOSeR guidelines require a medical organization to produce the Ladies Olympic Separation and Othering Report (LOSOR) establishing the fitness advantage of competing athletes. Selected to perform the medical work is the Men’s Olympic Major Medical Association (MOMMA). JK Rowling was selected among 4 competing bidders to provide horoscope services.

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    I can’t even run, let alone walk fast, let alone walk without a cane. I’ll kick anyone’s ass in photography though.

  • dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    link to the study: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2026/01/22/bjsports-2025-110239

    some quotes from the article I thought were interesting:

    While transgender women exhibited higher lean mass than cisgender women, their physical fitness was comparable.

    transgender women’s VO₂ max, when adjusted for weight, aligns with cisgender women,4 further supporting parity in endurance capabilities

    the absence of strength disparities between transgender women and cisgender women found in the current review was consistent and contradicts narratives framing male puberty as conferring irreversible athletic advantages despite GAHT.

    transgender women’s pretherapy advantages in push-ups and sit-ups disappeared after 2 years of feminising hormones among 46 individuals who started GAHT while in the US Air Force.

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    Breaking news: thing we all already know once again proven true. In other news fire is hot.

    It’s fine and good to get studies reaffirming what we already know, but the idiots don’t know how to read so i don’t know that it’ll get through to them.

  • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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    but sports aren’t meant to be all about fairness either.

    because we can then argue that some sports need to be separated by ethnic lines. or height categories. the endless arbitrary subdivisions are endless and trivial.