There is, however, plenty of anecdotal evidence -- for example, the fact that they keep cleaning up in sports competitions. The case they open with is a great one. There's little scientific evidence that this person has advantages over biological females; however, 'she' just set two Ivy League records, thus out-competing every woman in that league who has ever competed in this sport.
"Little" Evidence
The important caveat here is that there is "little scientific evidence" that biological males have advantages in sport. That merely means that relatively few studies have dared to consider the question, unsurprising in an environment in which studying it would quickly end your career.
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If biological males have no scientifically detectable advantage, one wonders how women's sports came into existence at all.
It is one of those hall-of-mirrors games where everyone knows the obvious but you try to force your opponent to make a watertight case, all the while denying him all the tools he might use to do that, then declaring victory.
I don't know that there's a "caveat" here. Anybody can do the observations themselves (and most of us have over the years) and produce the hypothesis and query additional data to see if the prediction is wrong. Statistics are available. You don't need a PhD, just a little integrity and some assistance with statistics.
The story is simply a lie.
I'll take all this seriously when women rise through the ranks of professional football and basketball. We might get a little evidence that way.
For that matter, I am unaware of any scientific evidence that there is a gas station near me, yet I always seem to be able to find it and fill up when I need to.
I'm still waiting for a transman to rise up and start dominating male competitors.
You could hardly ask for better regulated 'experiments' than athletic competitions, especially the most basic like running, jumping, swimming- where the variables are minimal and the test of physical ability is rather direct. And if one looks at that data, the conclusion is about as obvious as one can get.
That's the problem, isn't it? The data are unwelcome, so now we're at work on ways to squelch the data. How this will work out in sports will be interesting, because people like to watch them enough to put a lot of money in it, so the squelching is really going to come out of some hides. The virtue signaling will get expensive fast. It will be a little like watching the EU squirm over energy prices: it's all fun and games for Greta Thunberg until you can't keep your house warm in Northern Europe. In the legal world we used to call this "filing a Motion to Get Real."
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