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Gregory Brown's avatar

I didn’t delve into is in this piece, but males have advantages in lean body mass, lung size and function, and heart size and function before puberty. A great place to start looking into this in more detail is the 2005 paper by Eiberg showing that when 6-7 year old boys and girls engage in the same amount of physical activity the boys have a higher VO2max and more lean body mass.

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Leslie MacMillan's avatar

>" . . .transgender identified males (i.e., “transgirls” and “transwomen”) should not be allowed to participate in the female sports category before or after puberty even when puberty blockers are used."

Puberty blockers ought not to be used in anyone (except for kids with precocious puberty), so this particular issue ought to be moot. No boys in girls' sports. Period.

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