For a person who has transgendered from man to woman, are female hormones going to really going to adequately compensate for the inherently more powerful musculature of a man that the transgendered person will still have?
Your question, astro, is invalid because it begs the question. Long-term post-op male-to-female transsexuals simply do not have an “inherently more powerful musculature”. Since your question assumes a contrafactual, it cannot be answered.
The only way in which it might be unfair is in sports where height is a significant serious factor, but even then I don’t think it would make that much of a difference.
What about the larger heart and lung capacity of someone born and raised in a village at 10,000 feet rather than sea level?
People are not laboratory mice - their genetics, environment as a child, and all sorts of things will affect them.
And cardiovascular health isn’t the sole determining factor. Flo-Jo was an asthmatic, but still a champion athlete. And wasn’t there recently an Olympic swimmer with severe asthma? Both those folks had less than average respiratory systems yet still were world-class athletes. It’s not JUST the physical here - if it was, we could just skip the track meet and award medals based on a physical exam.
I was more or less coming in to say this, but I’m glad you were the one to do it - being an expert on the subject, as it were.
I think the perception that some people have of TG persons is that they’re just a man in a dress with some surgical changes. We know that isn’t true at all.