LogFAQs > #949763784

The thing about injecting hormones is your levels can change.

I.e. "healthy" testosterone in males is a range of 300-1000 ng/dl.

Be hard pressed to find someone walking around naturally at 1000 ng/dl. Now different sporting authorities check for many substances, but one of the most commonly abused is testosterone.

If I want to beat the system, I can inject enough to be walking around at 1000 ng/dl, or if I'm aware of the testing window I can inject much more, and back it off as testing window nears.

The thing is testoerone levels will drop very quickly if my synthetic injections stop, as my natural production is shutdown. However, muscle mass that I've accumulated while injecting doesn't disappear overnight, let alone for a while. Not to mention, one of the benefits is enhanced recovery time, allowing a user to simply train more intensely, more frequently. Which at high levels of competition can be just as, if not more, beneficial than added size/strength in competition.

All this to say, hormones aren't as straight forward as given levels on a given day. There would have to be decisions made about how long HRT is required, how often hormones are tested. Who decides how long someone has to be "in transition" for before competing? How closely would they be monitored outside of competition?

Im not proposing any of this information to say trans athletes shouldn't be allowed in competition. Just wanted to present some of the issues that might need to be addressed going forward


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