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Dr. Eric Vilain on Transgender Athletes in Sports

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The Role of Testosterone Levels in Sports

Policy was made looking at this one paper, but interestingly the logical policy that should have been. They removed pole vault and hammer throw because of conversations with sports authorities who said we didn't have a case of intersex or trans athlete in hammer throw and pole vault. So we remove them. This is better. It's more inclusive. But we did in 1500 meters. Not withstanding the fact that there were methodological issues with this paper which Roger had on this show pointed out.

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