Mary Peters says not an equal playing field to let trans women compete in women's sport

[stumbledin]

Olympic gold medal winner Mary Peters has become the latest sporting icon to raise doubts about transgender athletes taking part in competitions against women.

Lady Peters, who won gold in the women’s pentathlon at the 1972 Olympics, said she did not agree that “people who had changed their gender” and still had high levels of the sex hormone testosterone “could compete on equal terms” with biological women. She drew parallels with the sporting world in the 1970s and 1980s, when East German coaches gave testosterone injections and anabolic steroids to female athletes to boost their performance unfairly.

“As a woman you hope that . . . you can compete on an equal playing field. If a man becomes a woman they still have that testosterone in their body and it is not an equal playing field”

Article in today's Times www.thetimes.co.uk/article/olympic-star-mary-peters-charges-into-trans-athletes-row-mn5fb6nch

Top woman, excellent news.

The article is dated a year ago. The headline seems a bit inflammatory though.

@Dragonglass

The article is dated a year ago. The headline seems a bit inflammatory though.

Only if you don't live in the real world.

That's strange about the date. It came up on a news feed which is only meant to be the past 24 hours!

Sorry should have checked, but cant help to have a reminder that some woman are willing to speak out!

I wish she hadn't put the emphasis on testosterone. TRAs can just point out that there's a testosterone limit which males have to reach in order to play (even though it's 4 or 5 times higher than the testosterone level of your average female athlete ).

Surely the point is that even when testosterone has decreased, tw are still taller and heavier, and loss of muscle is negligible.

The sporting authorities have all put a huge emphasis on testosterone, and it's such a red herring.

Only if you don't live in the real world.

What do you mean? You don't think 'charges into' is an inflammatory way to say that a woman has an opinion?

Surely the point is that even when testosterone has decreased, tw are still taller and heavier, and loss of muscle is negligible.

This is what the research has shown. That reducing the 't' doesn't negate the overall benefits of male puberty.

I agree its inflammatory.

She stated the obvious about her line of expertise.
Thats hardly "charging into a row"