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Is There Any Unfair Advantage in Women's Sport?

The long-term effects of being previously male give them advantage no matter how much they are reduced in terms of testosterone and hormones. There's also no science at all that suggests that the advantage can be removed. A number of athletes from the UK said no not on no thank you as it were to borrow from the weight left to in Tokyo. And I think the pressure that they brought has then compelled UK athletics to come out with a statement, which was a few weeks ago. They're basically saying that their desired position preferred policy would be to have a woman's category for biological females and an open category for everyone else. But here's the catch is they also pulled out of being able to

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