And as I’ve implied, HRT-driven muscle mass loss turn these alleged advantages into disadvantages. On a side note:

“Three days after the opening ceremonies of the 1960 Rome Olympics, New York Times reporter William Barry Furlong bemoaned the tendency for female Olympians to destroy “The Image.” According to the author, The Image referred to the innate beauty possessed by petite, aesthetically pleasing, non-muscular women. In a three-page article titled “Venus Wasn’t a Shot-Putter,” Furlong complained that certain sports destroyed this natural feminine appeal, specifically admonishing discus, field hockey, shot put, and snooker pool, because in these activities the athletes’ “force of intellect—if any—was subordinated to harsher disciplines.” However, he noted that a “girl” athlete could maintain The Image if she selected a socially sanctified pastime. “Those that frolic athletically in swim suits or brief tennis skirts find it easy to preserve, not to say enhance, that Image,” Furlong explained. His disdain for women’s sports that required strength and power, such as shot put, and appreciation for those that mandated grace and skirts, such as tennis, mirrored the predominant gender ideology of the West during the onset of the Cold War.”

From Chapter 2 of ʺBecause They Have Muscles, Big Onesʺ: Cold War Gender Norms and International Sport, 1952–1967 pp. 35-60 (26 pages) in the book Sex Testing: Gender Policing in Women’s Sports