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By Craig Bannister | January 6, 2021 | 1:06pm EST
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Biological men who identify as women continue to outperform biologically-female athletes for at least two years after they begin receiving “feminising therapy” (female hormones), a new study shows.
“The results, published last month in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, could mean the current one-year waiting period for Olympic athletes who are transitioning is inadequate,” NBC reported on Tuesday:
“For the Olympic level, the elite level, I d say probably two years is more realistic than one year,” said the study s lead author, Dr. Timothy Roberts, a pediatrician and the director of the adolescent medicine training program at Children s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. “At one year, the trans women on average still have an advantage over the cis women, he said, referring to cisgender, or nontransgender, women.