Author’s response to “letter to the editor comment on: ‘A unique pseudo-eligibility analysis of longitudinal laboratory performance Data from a transgender female competitive cyclist’” by Lundberg, O’Connor, Kirk, Pollock, and Brown

We thank the authors of the letter [1] for their interest in our paper and the opportunity for further discussion around this important topic. The letter in question [1] critiques two papers authored by our research group: “Strength, Power, and Aerobic Capacity of Transgender Athletes: A Cross-Sectional Study [2]” and “A Unique Pseudo-Eligibility Analysis of Longitudinal Laboratory Performance Data from a Transgender Female Competitive Cyclist [3]”. While this critique presents itself as scientific, it seems to be driven more by subjective opinion for the reasons we set out below.