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.
UnHerd's Florence Read sits down with ex-Olympian swimmer Sharron Davies to discuss her new book 'Unfair Play, and the fraught issue of trans participation in sport.
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