New research regarding transgender athletes

Having a look at the full paper - not an expert, just an interested lay person. The gender nonsense makes it really hard to parse the meaning. I think my main criticism would be that training level is by self report so there's no way of measuring that that's the same. As the paper says:

BMI was also significantly different between the groups in this Study (F (3–66)=3.6, p=0.02). Transgender women athletes demonstrated higher BMI than cisgender women (t(66)=2.9, p=0.03, table 1), with no further differences observed.

I suspect this might be another paper where unfit transgender women are compared with fit women.

Also - in the no shit Sherlock category - Significant differences were found in height with CM being taller than transgender men Transgender women were also taller than transgender men cisgender women

Oh my goodness. Reads like an intro to a stage act, perhaps they're a stand-up comedian and it's all a big joke.

How disappointing. If unsurprising.

yes

This is the University of Brighton, mind.

Which, BTW, has a Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender
https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/organisations/centre-for-transforming-sexuality-and-gender

I believe so. That is the only 'recent' research that Hamilton has published so I daresay this is what it refers to.

It was basically pointed out by numerous sports scientists, sports ethics professionals and biologists that the recruitment made this study intrinsically flawed from the start.

Has Dr Hamilton's university profile page been hacked by a prankster?

Here's a sample paragraph:

Scholarly biography

Let's dive into Blair's incredible journey! Their background is a fusion of health, fitness, and sports development. Picture this: back in 2008, they nailed their national qualifications in health and fitness, and by 2010, they rocked a Higher National Diploma in sports coaching and development. But that's just the start!

Is Blair Hamilton the trans person selected as goal keeper for the Women’s Universities Football team?

transgender athletes perform worse than their non-transgender counterparts

The counterpart of a male transgender athlete is another male athlete, one assumes?

This is new research, so presumably not. The study may have other weaknesses. Or it may be part of getting a clearer picture of the effects that hormones (etc) have on people. I hope it's presented nice and clearly so it's easy to figure out which sex they're comparing with, I quickly get confused.

Weirdly "cis" language often doesn't help to clarify. I think it's because whenever people who use "cis" say just "women" and "men" with neither "cis" nor "trans" as a prefix I have no idea what they mean.

Wasn't this the study where they compared elite female athletes with unfit men (I.e men that weren't even exercising regularly).

Is the “non-trans counterpart” the same biological sex as the trans person?

Does any of this research take into account the likelihood of athletes deliberately reducing their effort in order to provide results supporting their desire to compete in the incorrect sex category?