2022 REVIEW: From Outrageous Cheats to Deciding The World's Greatest Ever Footballer
The Real Science of Sport Podcast
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Transgender Athletes in Women's and Men's Competitions
Leah Thomas is the first openly transgender athlete to win an NCAA title as a woman having previously been a biological male. The only question that matters in that model is does taking the testosterone away remove the advantage, he says. And so I think that's a very important question in running tasks and so forth but not fully. In other words they retain a significant part of male advantage. So we are seeing the fulfillment of the hypothesis or the prediction that the scientific evidence makes - until sports get to grips with us and do what is fair for women.
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