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Dr. Eric Vilain on Transgender Athletes in Sports

The Forward

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The Correlation Between Testosterone Levels and Performance

There was an attempt to see if there was a correlation between levels of testosterone, the male hormone, and performance by women in a world championship. And they did find a correlation for handful of events in which they could say that being in the top third of performers was correlated with having high levels of testosterone. That was true statistically for 400 meters, 400 meters heard all 800 meters, hammer throw and pole vault. I'm thinking, oh, this is great. They should invest in scientific inquiries about what is happening.

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