The Tragic Tale of an Athletics Doper / Athletics' New Transgender Rules
The Real Science of Sport Podcast
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The Importance of Fairness in Athletics
The IOC and its transgender rulings towards the end of 2021 they it was a curious document because on the one hand it said it should be up to the sports to decide but on the other it's sort of very much seem to steal them towards be as inclusive as possible unless you have specific silence that tells you otherwise. We don't have scientific studies on elite transgender athletes that have done you know that have been to the highest level and then reduced it to a testosterone but we do have I think 17 longitude studies that stress that even when you do reduce testosterone you keep a lot of your advantages which I'm sure Ross will be able to elaborate on.
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