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Dr. Eric Vilain on Transgender Athletes in Sports

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CHAPTER

The Science of Transphobia

There will be elite athletes who have an X on their passport that's neither male or female. They're going to go and try to compete at the Olympics or the World Championship. So, so what are the sports authorities going to say? Are they going to say, Oh, well, we know we have like this one, this one biological parameter, but wait a minute, we've actually now removed it? I want to go back to the science, right?

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There will be elite athletes who have an X on the, and not an M or not an F, but an X or, or, or, or some other variation of that that's neither male or female on their passport. They're going to go and try to compete at the Olympics or the World Championship. So, so what are the sports authorities going to say? Are they going to say, Oh, well, we know we
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have like this one, this
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one biological parameter, but wait a minute, we've actually
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now removed,
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we've, we're banning trends and we're like, well, I'm not trans. I'm just, I want to declare no gender. So society, when you say, oh, people will say, well, time out. I don't know. You know, young people who would not agree with that statement. They may say, Oh, that's great. Right. And, and look, the numbers won't lie there. I mean, the younger generation, this is a much more fluid topic, right? And whether it's their personal choice or their view of other people's personal choices, which, you know, we're just a couple of old guys sitting around. You know, what, what I find, I mean, we are having a conversation about this and, and, you know, we can go back and forth and, you know, agreeing on a lot of things and not agree on something, but this is, you know, obviously become just such a hot topic. But let's go back. I want to go back to the science, right? And again, because this is just the way my simple brain works, because I just don't know, right? I can, why isn't that mean shouldn't there be or maybe somebody is working on this, some sort of, you know, the, the be all end all scientific verdict on this? Because I, I do think, you know, the international federations, the national federations, the, the, the, the organizers, the promoters, the sponsors, et cetera, all the stakeholders would follow that. That's right. And they, in my opinion, you're absolutely right.

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