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Olympian Sharron Davies: Female Athletes are being Blackmailed

UnHerd with Freddie Sayers

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The Importance of Transgender Athletes in Women's Sport

The first Olympics that we were able to have any transgender athletes in there, really, was Tokyo. There are only 18 peer-reviewed studies in the world and every single one of those shows that we can't remove male puberty advantage. A female has a very different cue angle. And we have six times as many knee injuries in females because of that cue angle. Again, that's not removed by suppressing testosterone. So no matter how we look at it, you're still asking the female athletes to compete with a known disadvantage.

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