Just in case anyone thinks transgender issues in sports has been “settled by science”, they have not. Research is ongoing and inconclusive with contradictory results. Here is a recent review from April:
@Niko Trans people have been eligible for the Olympics and many other sporting events for decades. if there's an issue it would have appeared by now.
Trans dudes are of course a non issue, but get banned anyway. Same with intersex athletes.
@Doephin yeah, generally speaking, I find it ridiculous that this is an issue at all, and it mostly seems like a bad faith, anti-transgender thing. The IOC didn’t help when they had their testosterone based rules, but they have since rescinded those as far as I’ve been able to tell. And in the actual research space, it seems to back up the anecdotal experiences in sport for the last few decades.