The astonishing research has suggested transgender women have “comparable fitness” to those whose birth sex is female.

The study, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, says that current evidence “challenges assumptions” about trans women having inherent advantages in sport.

Reacting to the study on GB News, Ms Davies said: “Unfortunately, it’s trans-identifying men who were involved in the science world putting this study together.

“Joanna Harper is a very well-known scientist who transitioned a few years ago, and he’s been trying to prove for a very long time that there’s no benefit to being male but identifying as a female and being in women’s sport.”

Citing a claim in the study, she continued: “What’s quite fascinating is even in this study, I would just want to read this sentence out, the authors have admitted that ‘the evidence is of mixed quality, lacks range and age, and lacks sports and competitive levels’, so you kind of go, what have they got right?

“There was no pre-notification of fitness before these individuals decided to transition, so they didn’t know how fit they were when they started. And they’re comparing not very fit, not very competitive trans-identifying men with elite female athletes. So they’re not even comparing like for like.”

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She fumed: “It’s a really poor study and I’m so disappointed that the British Medical Journal would even bother to publish this sort of stuff.

“It’s a bit like saying a not very fit, not very sporty 15-year-old isn’t very good, so they should be taught how to compete with the 12-year-olds, that’s how ridiculous it is.”

Questioned by host Miriam Cates on whether she believes the British Medical Journal may be “pushing out an agenda”, the ex-Olympian agreed: “Yeah, unfortunately, I do. I think the BM Journal now has become quite activist, quite left-wing.

“I just think it’s such a sad reflection, this has got to be scientific evidence that’s based on proper, good studies and proper decent research. Why would you want to do this? The auspices behind this is that ‘oh well, should we should judge every individual case on its merit’, but how on earth do you do that?”

Ms Davies argued: “You’re asking people to self-report that they’ve got worse so that they’re allowed to go in and compete against women and have a biological advantage. How ridiculous is that just in itself?

“The simple truth is that women’s sport should be for biological females only, and what we have to do is think outside the box about how we can include everybody else because absolutely I want to include everybody else, we all do. But women’s sport is not a support structure for people that aren’t very good in men’s sport.”

Explaining the fundamental reasons why biological males have an advantage over biological females in sport, Ms Davies said: “It’s a little bit like boiling an egg, once you’ve boiled that egg and you’ve gone through puberty and you’ve got all of that benefit that really you can never un-boil it. But also men have a different bone structure as well.

“So we have what’s called AQ angle, which is your angle between your hips and your knees, and women’s are about 50 per cent more.

“So for example, in football, women get six times as many knee injuries, and that’s because obviously we don’t have the same cadence and the same power, and that’s never going to go away. Things like height won’t go away, hand size won’t go away, certainly dynamic power.

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“So anything that’s explosive, the gap is bigger. If you look at Olympic sport, it’s anywhere between 10 and 30 per cent, so the more explosive the event, the bigger the difference, weightlifting probably being the biggest. In boxing, a male will punch the equal weight 160 per cent or harder onto a less dense bone structure, so we’ve been waiting now for 10 years for a woman to die.

“We’ve had some serious injuries in America, people who have been made deaf and had their necks broken, but they’ve not died. We’ve almost been waiting for a woman to die. We’ve got years, decades of results to show you that there is a very big difference between male and female performance.”

Citing the controversy around swimmer Lia Thomas, Ms Davies concluded: “And then we have someone like Lia Thomas that transitioned in America. Lia Thomas was not a very good male swimmer, was 650th somewhere in American University swimming in distance freestyle.

“So that’s a bit like a marathon runner who then transitioned and started winning sprint events in women’s American swimming, beating three Olympic American silver medalists, it doesn’t happen, it really doesn’t happen. It’s just extremely unfair.”