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There are great variations among cisgender athletes, he noted — differences in height, weight, training, and more — but no one seems to worry about those. “It is expected that about 2.3% of a normally distributed population is likely to fall above two standard deviations from a population mean,” he explained. “These exceptional individuals may be those who are gifted and excel at some sport or athletic performance.”
That means that in the general population there are bound to be people who are better at some sport because of physical ability — both natural and training-affected.
“In contrast only 0.5%–0.6% of the population identify as trans,” Oberlin continued. “There is no concern for restricting individuals who are exceptionally large or small, those who are genetically gifted, or those with differing hormone concentrations or muscle mass, so long as their gender and biologic sex align.”
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