Elway Simpson

Go Mariners. Go Broncos. Sco Ducks. Go Blazers

[Seattle Mariners @Mariners]

41 seasons on the call, a lifetime in our hearts.

Rick Rizzs, you’re a Mariners legend. #FarewellRick

[Portland Fire @theportlandfire]

Carla 🤝 Assists

Carla Leite has set an All-Time Franchise Assist Record with 237 assists.

[Portland Trail Blazers @trailblazers]

2014-15 LaMarcus Aldridge was peak hoops

[Seattle Mariners @Mariners]

Have a night, Michael Arroyo! #TridentsUp

[Seattle Mariners @Mariners]

JULIOOOOO 🔥

[Elway Simpson @ElwaySimpson]

RT @Mariners: 474 FOOT BOMB FROM LAZ.

Montes' first home run at @tmobilepark is the longest in ballpark history and tied for the longest i…

[Elway Simpson @ElwaySimpson]

@ESPNInsights 14-2 in 1998, you wanna try again?

[Mariners PR @MarinersPR]

Julio Rodríguez is the first player in @MLB history to begin his career with 5-consecutive 20+ home run, 20+ stolen base seasons.

[Seattle Mariners @Mariners]

Laz is a whole vibe 🔱

[Seattle Mariners @Mariners]

Talk about a good first impression 💥💥💥

[Seattle Mariners @Mariners]

First hit ✅
First RBI ✅

Welcome to the bigs, Lazaro! #TridentsUp

[US Open Tennis @usopen]

That night in 2016 when Stan became a US Open champion 🏆

[Tennis Scorigami @tenniscorigami]

M Navone d. N Djokovic 7-6 5-7 4-6 6-2 6-1

SCORIGAMI! That score has never happened in the Open Era

[Elway Simpson @ElwaySimpson]

@TennisChannel Math is tough

[wta @WTA]

Grab the popcorn 🍿

We're in for a brilliant fortnight at Flushing Meadows 🙌

@PIF_en | #USOpen

[Stanislas Wawrinka @stanwawrinka]

When I first arrived in New York from a small farming village in Switzerland, everything felt too big 🇨🇭
The city.The noise.The energy.The crowds.The lights💥
But year after year New York slowly became one of my favorite places in the world🌎🙌🏻
This city challenged me. It pushed me. It brought something out of me that few places ever could⚡️
I experienced some of the strongest emotions of my career here.
The battles, the late nights, the incredible atmosphere, the love from the crowd…memories that will stay with me forever 🙏🏻💭🗽
Winning the US Open,in the city that never sleeps,will forever be one of the greatest moments of my life 🏆🌇

Thank you, New York🗽
Thank you, @usopen 🎾
Thank you to every single fan who supported me, pushed me, believed in me and shared all these emotions with me over the years🙏🏻🫶🏻
Forever grateful. Forever New York🗽🇺🇸

[Portland Trail Blazers @trailblazers]

it's almost that time ⌚️
(and yes this was one take..)

@DriveToyota

[Portland Trail Blazers @trailblazers]

Dame doing Dame things 😮‍💨

On this day in 2020, Damian Lillard scores 61 points against the Mavericks in the NBA bubble, matching a then-franchise record.

[Mariners PR @MarinersPR]

On This Date in 2005: Félix Hernández earns his first MLB win, tossing 8.0 shutout innings in a win over the Twins. #FelixHOF

[Kirsti Miller @KirstiMiller30]

99.9% of people don't even know what's being even regulated.

I am a world champion athlete who has published peer-reviewed research in this field and I say it is clear that there is male-performance advantage over females.

Men on average are stronger than women due to the relative % of muscle vs. fat, and to power that extra muscle they have more oxygenating cells (haemoglobin) in the blood... ALL of which are controlled by hormones, they are not set at puberty. No-one disputes this.

Trans women who compete in female sports are on gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) — typically oestrogen plus medications to lower testosterone. This therapy leads to measurable changes in body composition and function.

What the evidence says about performance in trans women athletes⬇️

Research has shown worse performance for trans women compared to cisgender women in : lung function, efficiency of breathing, and fitness (Braga et al., Saitong et al., and Alvares et al.) when normalised to body size.

Cheung et al. (2023) after 2 years of GAHT, trans women show little to no physical performance advantage over cisgender women.

In a UK study, athletic trans women (on hormones for 4–6 years) had worse performance than cisgender women in lung function, jump height, and relative VO₂ max (a measure of fitness) than cis women, but absolute grip strength was higher.

In another study of national-level volleyball players, athletic trans women performed similarly to cis women (but below cis men) across multiple physical metrics.�

And the most comprehensive synthesis to date, a 2026 systematic review and meta-analysis (Sieczkowska et al., British Journal of Sports Medicine) of 52 studies and 6,485 participants, found that trans women on 1–3 years of GAHT had upper-body strength, lower-body strength and relative VO₂ max comparable to cis women, despite higher absolute lean mass. The authors concluded the evidence does not support theories of inherent athletic advantage for trans women over cis women.�

2025 longitudinal study (Harper et al., European Journal of Sport Science) tracked 9 trans women runners and 1 trans woman swimmer before and after starting GAHT. Race times slowed by around 15% in runners (with bigger decrements in longer-distance events) and around 5% in the swimmer. After adjusting for training volume, the runners’ age-graded performance scores did not differ pre- versus post-GAHT, meaning they were roughly as competitive in the women’s category as they had previously been in the men’s category. This is the first study to use both retrospective and prospective data on the same trans women athletes before and after GAHT.

Despite frequent public talk, there is no robust empirical evidence that trans women increase injury risk to cisgender women in sport.

Most policies that cite safety are based on theoretical models (assuming trans women are the same as cis men, and comparing cis men to cis women), not on observed injury data.

Many sporting bodies have eligibility policies. These often require:

Maintaining testosterone levels below a threshold (e.g. < 5 nmol/L) for a set duration (e.g. 24 months).

Submission of performance data (times, strength metrics, prior competition data).

In summary

There is very low participation of trans people in sport due to a large number of barriers such as actual or anticipated discrimination.

Hormone therapy leads to substantial physical changes in trans women, which often narrow or eliminate many performance differences over time.

Any remaining differences are small and vary by sport. Some studies show a slight residual advantage in certain measures (e.g., handgrip strength) and a disadvantage in others (e.g., lung function and aerobic fitness). How much this matters depends on the demands of the specific sport.

Fairness and inclusion can coexist. With thoughtful, evidence-based policies, both can be achieved without resorting to blanket bans.

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