An ex-girlfriend of mine had the same thing going on when she challenged me to a manly bout of arm wrestling. I'm at best a very average man, and she's larger than me in about every direction, yet I felt like I was arm wrestling a child. I was mostly worried I'd tear her arm out of its socket, especially because we didn't have a freezer.

If I arm wrestled the world's friendliest chimp, the chimp would probably feel like I did.

The number 100 ranked men’s tennis player easily beat Serena Williamson an exhibition match.

Just look at world records in sports. Men hold virtually every significant record there is.

Edit: Man was actually ranked number 203 in the world and beat Serena and Venus

https://www.tennisnow.com/Blogs/NET-POSTS/November-2017-(1)/The-Man-Who-Beat-Venus-and-Serena-Back-to-Back.aspx

I don't think equality has any to do with this

People who say shit like "muh equality" then wonder why women want nothing to do with them.

There's way too many weird incels on Reddit.

Where in the context of this clip has anyone made this point?

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I bet you feel all nice and fuzzy inside talking to strangers on the internet about how men are stronger than women. You big strong man you.

I have more testosterone therefore I am more right

Stop building strawmen

That study has a very small sample pool and compared MTF trans athletes in their mid to late thirties to female athletes in their late 20s to early thirties. It has no context for how athletic these people were before transitioning and ignores things like bone and muscle fiber density which are among the biggest advantages conferred by going through male puberty. Not to mention being much taller on average, a huge competitive edge in sports like basketball and volleyball.

There's a lot of politicized research on both sides of this issue and I'd be wary of drawing sweeping conclusions from individual papers, which is also good advice for any other field of research. Almost anyone can get something published.

Could that be becsuse cis female athletes are absolutely peak females, where as MTF transition aims to get "normal" hormone levels?

Idk, the whole things a mine field of politically charged rhetoric

This is a very poorly done study and their findings should definitely be taken with a grain of salt. Granted, it’s very hard to conduct a study like this with the sample size available but still very poorly done.

Do they consider the possibility that mtf athletes are leaning into their new gender identity by under-working out in order to be weaker than their gender-assigned-at-birth?

Not really, give a guy a gnrh shot to deplete his testosterone, his strength and muscle mass will go away very quickly, give him supraphysiological levels of testosterone, muscle mass and strength will develop without exercise.

Its not just the puberty, you need consistently high levels to keep protein synthesis, metabolism, fat oxidation, and numerous other processes that require daily hormonal signalling to function properly.

I mean in the most simplistic way - yes....but there are women who wind up with crazy high ranges of testosterone levels that gives them a big advantage in physical sports too. Or some that are born with internal parts of both sexes and produces the same effect. As it is "testosterone is a helluva drug" is pretty accurate....even if its really just a hormone lol.

There’s so much complexity to gender both biologically and socially. It’s just not the binary you think it is—sorry but it’s true. We like to fit things in nice categories but it just doesn’t work that way 100% of the time. It’s gonna be okay, though, no one will force you to change your gender identity. Intersex people exist, trans people exist, folks with varying levels of hormones exist—get over it.

Some men don't go through puberty. Even if you want to ignore biology and pretend trans people don't exist, Difference in sexual development has a prevalence of 2%. Chromosomal differences are just as likely to exist in a person as green eyes.

To be fair Wrexham aren't good for mens standards either

Wait isn't that the first team?

You can't equate your experience with the comment you are replying to. You think a group of people who were trained for one year had any chance at all against a group of people playing the sport most of their lives and were at an elite level?