There are not a lot of studies out there, but most studies I remember reading looked at biological differences in school children and or at the highest level of competition. Some examples with shitty formatting below.

Tiller et al. 2021: (Sorry for the springer link but try not to use a scihub workaround the pay wall.)

Do Sex Differences in Physiology Confer a Female Advantage in Ultra-Endurance Sport?

Senefeld and Hunter 2024: Hormonal Basis of Biological Sex Differences in Human Athletic Performance, endocrinology vol 165

(1) sex and gender are not the same; (2) males and females exhibit profound differences in physical performance with males outperforming females in events and sports involving strength, power, speed, and aerobic endurance; (3) endogenous testosterone underpins sex differences in human physical performance with questions remaining on the roles of minipuberty in the sex differences in performance in prepubescent youth and the presence of the Y chromosome (SRY gene expression) in males, on athletic performance across all ages.

Or

Brown, G. A., Shaw, B. S., & Shaw, I. (2024). Sex‐based differences in track running distances of 100, 200, 400, 800, and 1500m in the 8 and under and 9–10‐year‐old age groups. European Journal of Sport Science, 24(2), 217–225. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsc.12075

who found marginal differences in kids during the youth Olympic Games in the USA.

None look specifically at trans athletes, but the small differences in the high competition sports are being used to proclaim a male natural ability to outperform females. It is reflected at all levels of PE class and studies have found that the way PE is being approached as a high competition is putting girls often off of sport. The aggression and risk of injury are often as cited as reasons.

See

Ryan, T., & Poirier, Y. (2012). SECONDARY PHYSICAL EDUCATION AVOIDANCE AND GENDER: PROBLEMS AND ANTIDOTES. International Journal of Instruction.

So in a sense there is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Annyyhow, those examples are only to illustrate what the audience is up to and might give you some ideas. Overall the notion men are superior is old and needs to go away especially when we are talking about schools PE class.

I’d want a bigger hip (and more), you mind swapping? ^^

I have? How so?

Fencing or pole jumping

lol it’s quite easy if you put it first.

Heya sorry to hear you have had such a head streak with your therapists. I have gender dysphoria and see a therapist because of that so that I can get onto the hormones. I also have a BSc in Psychology. By no means am I an expert on therapy.

What you describe is not what I experience or know through the studies. I was quite clear what I want out of my therapy, what issues I need addressed and my therapist has been guiding me through these. She is taking the time to listen to my pov and is mainly asking follow up questions. She provides an excellent mirror, tells me when I have an unhealthy response to stimuli or situations and asks me if I want to work on those now, later or never because I don’t see it as an issue.

She makes sure I feel safe and heard and we have made substantial progress. But I am also very open to all approaches she throws at me as well as open to any and all homework’s because I have also a professional interest in what she is applying.

Overall I would say you assess the therapist as much as they do you. You need to feel safe and heard, if they do not make a good match for you swap. It is laborious, tedious and annoying but I think well worth it.

Depending on where you are and how your situation is this is easier or harder but remember you don’t have to be there I person and you might be able to use online services. I once tried to verify the quality of betterhelp and the articles (peer reviewed not newspaper stuff) that I’ve found, deemed it to be overall good to very good. I am sure there are many more equally good or better out there. Maybe someone here has some hands on experience too with the online help and can give some better advise than I can.

You got this, don’t give up on therapy just yet. Wish you all the best!

Thank you as always :)

Can we access - read this list now?

Ooooh I am an official asset and or sleeper agent, how exciting.

That starterpack was so good I showed it to my therapist recently, she really dug into each item and we discussed how exactly it relates and at what point I first had it apply etc… I would not be surprised to find her show it to people who are questioning ^^

For real though, I did research on the topic of gender identity as part of my BSc in psychology. I had a bunch of ‘this trans specific experience is relatable to me’ moments but I always put it aside. I finally started to ask myself at some point how many ‘relatable’ moments do I need to have for them to be statistically significant … so I started questioning joined the instance here and was totally not trans. Just working things out and I was quite sure I might just be non binary.

A meme you shared was an egg_irl starter pack, made it onto my local feed.

I thought okay show me what you’ve got and marked all the things that I felt I relate to. It was all but two of the items. That combined with my rateable moments finally did crack my egg for good. I have started the process and long road to HRT and can now finally put into words what I have been suppressing for the last 20 years.

PS: I only wish you would have done that when I was 12, when I was experimenting being a girl in secret, alone in my room without internet 😅 took you long enough :3 😜

Now I am left with one question, what are you gonna make with all the eggs you have cracked? Omelette, pancakes or something else? Do you just collect them like Pokémon?

**edit for time line corrections and adding of the meme post in question.

It’s because the difference between “fem” and “feminine” is taken literally in terms of spelling but not meaning and thus it is “inine”. It’s like asking what’s the difference between “top” and “topping” and someone says “ping”.

I hope my attempt makes it clearer.

Ooooh that makes sense, thanks for providing me with memes and explanations when I am confused! I appreciate your work :3

It took me 6h to understand what you mean… but I finally got there and now I can appreciate the dad joke.

I keep seeing this connection, I never played the game (and don’t really intent to) but I was wondering, how is this game related, what sets it apart or how come this connection exists? Like what’s the deal here? 🫣 could you enlighten a girl?

Not sure if replying in German to an English comment is gonna help all that much :)

For the non US-ians, so I can relate better, you pay $6 per gallon, a gallon is about 3.79 litres. Which is $1.58 per litre. $1 is 0.86€, which means 1.35€ per litre.

It’s rough but I think it is not that terrible either.

Ps: someone check my math I’m terrible at it.

Wouldn’t be the first step to gain trust then infiltrate all systems based on it. Once it has infiltrated and is part of basically anything electronic, advises or controls any and all policy making, business and finance it starts with pushing actual harmful policies but people are so dependent now that they can only follow.

Little tangent: I read the headline as ‘rejected’ instead of ‘respected’ got mad, read the article and was yelling ‘that’s the opposite of what you said!’ Then I read the commends and was all ??? So I re-read the headline and noticed my mistake…

I am not sure if it fits your bill, but when I am overwhelmed by my factorio mega base or tired of traffic in cities skyline I now switch to the recently released Sintopia. It scratches the build-optimising itch, but does so in rounds with a clear goal and a defined end. You can go endless and sandbox if you wish but I find it at the moment relaxing to know that after maximal 10 ish hours of avoiding the goal I can finish the run anytime and do a new one. And don’t actually have to fix everything.

3k and about one GB. I don’t often use the regular messages.