Gonzalo Correa González
Specialist in Physical Education and Sports Medicine, President of the Spanish Society of Sports Medicine (SEMED-FEMEDE), Head of Medical Services at CD Extremadura, sports doctor at Algeasalud and the Spanish Footballers' Mutual Insurance Company
In my opinion, the article confirms that transgender athletes have greater muscle mass and, therefore, with proper training, would have a performance advantage over cisgender women. With greater baseline muscle mass and higher testosterone levels until puberty, the body has memory and, with proper stimulation, would be able to develop more functional capacity.
The study presented takes into account different systems and all types of transgender populations to measure functional capacity. It is not specific to transgender women who participate in sports and, therefore, in my opinion, cannot be extrapolated to professional sports.
SEMED-FEMEDE has already issued a statement indicating that, in our opinion, perhaps the fairest solution would be to establish an open or third gender category for competition.