Do trans female have an advantage in most sports?

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[–]yousaythosethings 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

In gymnastics, a male person competing against females would have an advantage on vault and most of all on floor. Men and women use the same apparatuses and for the most part compete the same families of gymnastics with the main differences being that men do flares/extensions and not leaps/turns, which women do on floor. The vault is the same other than the men’s vault is set slightly higher.

They would have a disadvantage on beam and I would believe a disadvantage on bars (but the nature of this event constantly evolves way more than the other event). The disadvantage on beam would go away if they got genital surgery because the main concern is splitting the beam (falling with your legs on either side of the beam). Bulky muscles would make bars more difficult.

The overall effect of a trans woman in women’s gymnastics is that they have the power to erase the once-in-lifetime accomplishments of Simone Biles. And an influx of trans women may have the effect of raising the vault table.

[–]GConly 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

A male would have a disadvantage on the beam because of the higher centre if gravity in men

[–]yousaythosethings 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

True higher center of gravity is harder, which is why some juniors and early seniors have big tricks. But male gymnasts, while taller on average than female gymnasts, still tend to be pretty short. And there are great female beam workers on the taller side of female gymnasts too. For reference, Sanne Wevers (5’1”); Chellsie Memmel, Tabea Alt, and Ellie Downie (5’2”); Aliya Mustafina, Nastia Liukin, Catalina Ponor, Giulia Steingruber, and Eythora Thorsdottir (5’3”); Pauline Schäfer, Giorgia Villa, Marine Boyer, Elisabeth Seitz, and Sarah Finnegan (5’4”); Svetlana Khorkina and Nina Derwael (5’5”); Maggie Nichols and Lieke Wevers (5’6”); and Kyla Ross (5’7”) who are around as tall as male gymnasts tend to be.

For reference, Carlos Yulo is 4’11”. Jonathan Horton is 5’1”. Ciao Ruoteng is 5’2 1/2”. Kenzo Shiran, Oleg Verniaev, and Yul Moldauer are 5’3.” Kohei Uchimora, Artur Dalaloyan, Fabian Hambüchen, and Daiki Hashimoto are 5’4”. Alexei Nemov and Nikita Nagornyy are 5’6.”