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Male advantage due to testosterone? The first crucial question in the debate, followed by a remarkably bad or dishonest assessment of the evidence to totally rewrite the physiology of male
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I can say without hesitation that safety was NOT the only side listened to. The process invited medicine, science, law, ethics, players, and rights groups, & included advocacy groups representing
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The World Rugby Transgender guideline is now out, and fully available here: https://playerwelfare.worldrugby.org/gender You’ll also find a document called FAQs which tries to answer some common questions. We firmly believe
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Last week, I posted a thread addressing a common criticism of transgender athlete policies, namely that they’re based on evidence in non-athletes. Here’s that thread, for a reminder. Today, I
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This has been a common argument in the trans women in rugby debate. People have the idea that unless you *directly* study rugby AND show that TW cause injuries, it
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Here are all the presentations that were given over the course of the two days: https://playerwelfare.worldrugby.org/?subsection=84 They are arranged in order, so it goes science, medical, legal/risk, social and then ethical
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If we allowed biological sex to become one of the elements sport rewards, it would mean rewarding ONLY people with functioning androgen physiology. The champions in EVERY SINGLE event would
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Something keeps coming up in the discussions about women’s sport, fairness and advantages for transwomen. It’s that there is an overlap in the physiology affecting performance between males & females,
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I can only imagine the study that would need to be done to confirm this "90% accuracy" claim. In fact, I have to imagine it because I can pretty much
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Here's an important paper in the transathlete debate, by @TLexercise & @FondOfBeetles. They ask whether male performance advantages are removed after testosterone suppression? (as required by many sports policies for
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So, yesterday I shared with you a presentation I made on #immune function & exercise, and then on detraining & fitness during #lockdown. How much, how fast, how to prevent
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