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ResourcesExcellent Twitter thread from 2021 highlighting specific cases where men failed to achieve in the men's divisions of their respective sports, but then became top-level winners in the women's
This thread from 2021 from Twitter user ripx4nutmeg has excellent historic information about TIMs' performance in the men's division pre-transition compared to their much-improved performance in the women's division post-transition. This would be a useful thread to save and have on hand for later reference. A few highlights:
Cece Telfer
2017: CeCe Telfer is ranked 390th among male NCAA Division II athletes in the 400m hurdles category
2018: Telfer 'transitions'
2019: Telfer is national NCAA Division II women's 400m hurdle champion
2021: Telfer hopes to qualify for the US Olympics
Laurel Hubbard
1998-2012: Laurel Hubbard fails to qualify for a single international men's tournament as a professional weightlifter
2013: Hubbard 'transitions' (aged 35)
2014-21: Hubbard qualifies for 11 international women's tournaments, including the Olympics
Kate Weatherly
Up until 2020: Kate Weatherly competes in the New Zealand men's downhill mountain bike open division (the grade below elite) but fails to win any events
2020: Weatherly 'transitions'
2021: Weatherly wins the New Zealand elite women's national championship
Pretty sure I’ve liked and retweeted this thread a number of times only to have it mysteriously all wiped at a later time -_- Musk still hasn’t managed to get rid of all the evil TRA algorithms that suppress women on the platform.
Let's write the same story for Lia Thomas . . .