The issue revolving whether or not transgender athletes should be allowed to perform has been widely speculated. In 2025 alone, 745 anti-trans bills were introduced into state legislature. With transgender people taking up only 1% of the population, and a mere 0.002% of college athletes, there aren't very many athletes these acts pertain to.
One of the major fears expressed concerning transgender people in sports, is unfairness revolving around genetics. However, these worries aren't as profound as they seem to be. In many cases, transgender women actually perform worse than cisgender women when measuring body strength and lung function. In fact, transgender women have the same bone density as cisgender women, which is linked to muscle strength, a major topic of debate in this field. Alongside this, there are no meaningful differences found between transgender and cisgender women's hemoglobin profiles, eliminating a factor of bias in athletic performance.
