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Well yes, I meant more this is potentially useful for pointing out just how common it is, as I see trans activists often claiming it's very rare for transwomen to win in sports, that they actually have no competitive advantage, and these are just outliers.

This Twitter thread is fairly lengthy but it seems like a useful resource, a catalog of the many, many men who transitioned and then went on to brutally dominate women's sports.

Today yes, back then? Not so much. The game was quite different in the 30s, partially from small rules changes (spitballs were legal then), partly from equipment (baseballs in that era were "dead," that is, more loosely tied compared to modern ones), and partly because most of the players...

You kinda proved his point. Jackie Mitchell was signed on by Engel, who was known for his publicity stunt style, not for getting the best players. Jackie Mitchell was a minor leaguer who was known for publicity stunts like pitching while wearing a fake beard, and at one point being asked to...

You've got to love some of the comments though. Yeah, Women's sports exist because otherwise female athletes would dominate males, it was purely the patriarchy protecting itself.

Please, please tell me you're joking and not actually that naive. Please tell me you didn't take everything in a Wikipedia article at face value without investigating. Please? The Connor study is a laughingstock, nevermind that they manage to decide fewer people were willing to dope...

Goldman's Dilemma. This is a classic question and its results have been repeated many, many times over several decades. More than half of athletes questioned said they would take a drug guaranteed to kill them in five years if it also guaranteed gold medals along the way. The idea that at...

I don't think there's enough Trans athletes to support a league. In the US it's around 0.58% of the population. I wasn't able to nail down the percentage of professional athletes in the population exactly but my offhand estimate based on percentage of college athletes > percentage that go pro...