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Let’s remove the words transgender, Laurel, Hannah or Mack Beggs out of the conversation for a minute and let’s look at some of the medical consequences that occur when an XY male suffers low levels of testosterone.
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When a man has low testosterone, or hypogonadism, he may experience:
-Reduced sex drive
-Erectile dysfunction
-Low sperm count
-Enlarged or swollen breast tissue
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Over time, these symptoms may develop in the following ways:
-Loss of body hair
-Loss of muscle bulk
-Loss of strength
-Increased body fat
Chronic, or ongoing, low testosterone may lead to osteoporosis, mood swings, reduced energy, and testicular shrinkage.
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None of these medical consequences are performance enhancing. No castrated XY male has ever broken a world record or even competed at the elite level of sports.
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The medications administered to transitioning XY females are powerful drugs the same drugs used to chemically castrate sex offenders the same drugs used to chemically castrate prostate cancer sufferers.
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A male in this health condition is able to be granted a therapeutic use exemption (TUE) for T to bring his T levels up to the same level as his same sex competitors but this is not allowed for surgically transitioned women they are forced to compete unhealthy.
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This treatment changed my body from a 100kg dual int male athletes body into a 57kg size 6 transitioned woman’s body with my body suffering permanent severe post menopausal symptoms including complete muscle atrophy & over 200 medical complications in my body.
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The Xy transitioned female are the only athletes in the world that can medically illustrate, physiologically, how the body breaks down over time and what happens to the human physiology when testosterone values get down to a certain level or is removed, and the..
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body is no longer able to generate any hormones. For all other athletes that have been discussed in this space, their testosterone levels are their ‘normal’, and they are healthy.

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The maintenance of endogenous testosterone levels is essential to basic health in both men and women. An XY male who transitions to XY female has had their major source of endogenous testosterone (the testicles) taken away, ...11-

so needs to take synthetic testosterone in order to maintain basic health.

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At this point, it is important to point out that testosterone is not exclusively a male hormone. It is produced by both males and females in the testicles and ovaries (& also in the adrenal glands), ...
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however XY chromosome bodies need to produce it in higher quantities 6 to 10 times as they have XY androgen receptors.

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XX androgen receptors are highly sensitive to testosterone, requiring much less testosterone to equate the same level of health. However, both male and female elite athletes also produce testosterone in higher quantities than the ‘normal’ population,
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and there is also a significant amount of overlap between testosterone levels in male and female elite athletes.
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The assumption is that the @iocmedia / @wada_ama did research to support their current policies to regulate sport. It is untrue. No work was ever done. If the IOC did the work in the first place, one this would be acknowledged.
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@wada allows men diagnosed with low testosterone to apply for an exemption to take synthetic testosterone, an otherwise banned substance, because they have a medical need.
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In the same document, WADA stipulates in bold font)that this exception should not be approved for females.Even if a woman’s testosterone falls below a healthy limit,she isnot granted the same opportunity as a man to raise it to levels commensurate with her samesex competitors.19-

Trans male athletes who transition from female to male,however, can compete hormonally unfettered. In fact, @wada_ama maintains that the use of synthetic testosterone“is essential for completion of the anatomical and psychological transition process in female-to-male athletes.20-

In a separate document, WADA incorrectly insists that there is no known indication for testosterone supplementation in transgender female athletes.
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testosterone is not just about performance enhancement, but also about one’s health and wellbeing. This is the crux of what was learnt in the case of Kristen Worley...
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& this is what has damaged my health making sport at any level impossible.
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