"A scientific team from Brazil has conducted a meta-analysis encompassing 52 studies and 6,485 participants, analyzing the body composition and physical fitness of transgender and cisgender women. While transgender women showed greater lean mass indicating greater muscle mass they did not exhibit greater physical capacity, such as strength or aerobic fitness, than cisgender women. This refutes the logic behind blanket bans on transgender women in sports, argues Bruno Gualano, a physician and researcher at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, who co-authored the study."
"The meta-analysis, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, analyzed 2,943 transgender women who had undergone hormone therapy for one to three years. It found no evidence of any physical advantage. There were no observable differences in upper or lower body strength, or in maximum oxygen consumption a key measure of cardiorespiratory fitness between trans and cisgender women. In fact, after gender-affirming hormone therapy, transgender and cisgender women showed similar levels of physical fitness across all variables analyzed."
A Brazilian meta-analysis pooled 52 studies with 6,485 participants to compare body composition and physical fitness of transgender and cisgender women. Transgender women displayed greater lean mass, indicating increased muscle mass. Transgender women did not demonstrate greater physical capacity than cisgender women in measures of upper or lower body strength or maximum oxygen consumption. The meta-analysis included 2,943 transgender women who had undergone one to three years of gender-affirming hormone therapy. After hormone therapy, transgender and cisgender women showed similar levels of physical fitness across analyzed variables. The data provide no support for blanket bans based on presumed retained advantages.
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