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BMJ sports journal beclown themselves

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Hoardasurass · 04/02/2026 08:00

So the san Pablo trans study has dropped and its bullshit results say that theirs no difference between men with special identities and women.

Yet the authors have already admitted major flaws qith their study and most sprts scientists are already calling it outas the bs it is however Dr Blair Hamilton of Manchester Metropolitan University claims that more muscle mass doesn't mean more strength 🤪

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Trans athletes have no advantage over women, study claims

Researchers argue there is no evidence to justify a blanket ban on transgender athletes competing against women

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/8fb1fab99e30ac23

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Shortshriftandlethal · 04/02/2026 09:16

ZeldaFighter · 04/02/2026 08:33

"Dr Blair Hamilton, research associate in applied sport and exercise physiology at Manchester Metropolitan University, said the study highlighted that “you can’t assume that having slightly more muscle automatically means having better sporting performance”.

He added that to know how something affects elite athletes, “you really need elite athletes to study,"

I thought Dr Blair Hamilton was a transgender woman? Referred to as He with a typically male picture. I wonder if it has anything to do with a ban on being the goalkeeper for the national England University football team.

Definitely a bloke, judging by photos.

SabrinaThwaite · 04/02/2026 09:08

Preprint of the study is here:

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.05.25326994v1.full

Of the 51 studies incorporated, only 15 included any physical activity assessment. The list of limitations includes short study durations (<3 years), a lack of data on elite athletes and the potential conflation of trained and untrained individuals.

ZeldaFighter · 04/02/2026 08:33

"Dr Blair Hamilton, research associate in applied sport and exercise physiology at Manchester Metropolitan University, said the study highlighted that “you can’t assume that having slightly more muscle automatically means having better sporting performance”.

He added that to know how something affects elite athletes, “you really need elite athletes to study,"

I thought Dr Blair Hamilton was a transgender woman? Referred to as He with a typically male picture. I wonder if it has anything to do with a ban on being the goalkeeper for the national England University football team.

NotMyRealAccount · 04/02/2026 08:32

Someone in the comments nailed it. Propaganda, not evidence. It's not original research, it's a meta-analysis of a bunch of very flawed studies with scope for bias to be introduced at various points in the process.

Whatever, these men are still men and should compete in their own sex class. Other men whose athletic performance is at the slower/weaker end of the curve aren't clamouring to be in women's competition.

Using Imane Khelif in the article was a poor example. He is not transgender, he is a man with a DSD.

LeftieRightsHoarder · 04/02/2026 08:09

Commenting on the study, Alun Williams, a professor of sport and exercise genomics at Manchester Metropolitan University, said the research “suffers from several problems”, including that fitness levels were not tracked over time and before treatment began.
He said the strength tests relied on “voluntary effort” and so should be “treated sceptically”, especially as the trans women had more muscle mass, while it was “almost worthless to compare groups without tight assessment of training history”.

The strength tests relied on voluntary effort. By men who need to be seen as weaker than they are, in order to continue competing against women.

That alone makes the research worthless.