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Bonus episode: Facts and fallacies in the trans athlete debate, a conversation with Dr Emma Hilton

The Real Science of Sport Podcast

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Is It Possible to Prevent Puberty?

In sweden they 've created policy that, i think, and you'll correct me on the numbers, that think they prevent surgical and medical interventions until a person is 18. But it does also seem to me that in many places in the world, the age of transition, or sexre assignment, is growing younger and younger. So what would sport make of an argument that says that if you transition prior to puberty, then you recrue the advantage and therefore, there should be no problem with participation in woman sport?

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