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I bet you can't name 3 more examples beyond the one in your comment.
It's such a non-issue. Trans people make up, what, 0.01% of the population? And what % of those are in competitive sports? People need to get a grip.
Here's a few that was able to find in this article.
Some became National champions as individuals and as part of a team. I'm sure there's some that cause more controversy than others, but the point is that this is a relatively new scenario that's only going to be more common as time passes. Already there's a statistically significant amount of competitions that have been won by transgender athletes.
Gonna start my response with this as I know most people will see a long comment and won't read it, and this might be the most important takeaway: a website about LGBTQ+ issues in sports seemed interesting, but the fact that the entire article seemed to be about counting and naming every single trans athlete they can find, I decided to do a quick search to find out what this site is about.
Sure enough:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsports?wprov=sfla1
So either you're aware that you're purposely misleading people by using disingenuous, bad faith sources, or you didn't do 30 seconds of research before posting what is clearly anti-trans agitprop.
Do better.
Now that's out of the way:
You have (perhaps purposely) misconstrued my request. I wasn't asking for trans athletes, I was asking for trans athletes that have "dominated" in their respective sport.
And what do you know, even the article in the bigoted rag you linked to says,
I can tell you with 100% certainty that, if they knew about more than 3, they would have been listed in that article. I have zero doubt in my mind.
You said:
You were asking for 3 more examples and I provided them. So now you're trying to move the goalposts.
It may be a rag, but I only used it as a source for fact checking. I'm not going to source check something that's easily verified. I went to the first source that presented a list and a brief summary of their athletic activity. The whole "do better" rhetoric is such a bore. Do better at what? I've already mentioned in other comments that I'm pro LGBT rights and actively help athletes that are openly gay and/or gender dysphoric. Instead of attacking fact with empty rebuttals, maybe you should "do better".
Making excuses for basing your beliefs on obvious propaganda. Pretty sad, dude. Especially since you know you're doing it. You should be embarrassed.