sorry we're just better at applying ourselves, really seems like a skill issue.
when they want people banned from sports as a class, whether there is or isn't a perceived advantage, they feel threatened. If they didn't feel threatened, they wouldn't want to ban you from the sport, they'd simply just out-perform you. We saw this with the segregation of women into women's sports. It terrified especially Olympic athletes that they now had twice the competition, and worse, a woman might out-perform the champion of their gender.
All the arguments from the trans side, of trans women being weaker than cis women for a given athletic sport, having lower actual testosterone than cis women, etc? The right knows. At least the ones 'creating content' for and informing the majority of them. That's part of why those at the top of the pyramid are so afraid. Because we keep beating statistical chances at any given sport even because of that.
Transition is a long-term project involving many complex systems and the interfaces between them. We're, often, just better at things because of it, because we've already done part of whatever that thing is on the route to it, or at least some transferable skills. If nothing else, we tend to have more patience and or tenacity, experience with long-term projects with evolving requirements, learning on our feet for things we were never taught etc. A lot of that is survivorship bias. But 5-10% isn't and that's way huge.
Anyway just a thought.
