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ResourcesTrans cyclists
There's a very good thread at the moment on Twitter about TIMs in cycling, from @I_heart_bikes:
https://twitter.com/i_heart__bikes/status/1645205324612227072/photo/1
There are so many of them. What is about cycling that attracts them? Or is it just that cycling has drunk the Trans-Aid and won't ban them?
My guess is its the Leg Muscles ( Quads and Hamstrings and Glutes ) are the biggest muscle groups in the body. So if they have trained them correctly before transitioning, they could get huge and really powerful. So on T blockers, even after mass reduction in those muscles, they would be more powerful than their female counterparts.
So what's emerging is that it's partly a matter of physical advantages and partly a social network of men who encourage each other to "transition", in some sense of the word, in order to pick up easy prize money, and prestige in the eyes of people who don't think what they're doing is cheating.