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Ross Tucker
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Of all the arguments in this controversial area, this is the one I find most difficult to address, because the person has such a different view about what creates value
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You’ll look long and hard, and still fail, to find a debunking of something as poor and weak as this one. Simply saying the opposite thing preceded by FACT (in
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That’s great, she’s probably on the far right of the athleticism spectrum within the female sex. But the comparison with you is absolutely irrelevant, because, and I say this factually,
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As a principle, it’s ridiculous. Even if you could apply the rainbow variables & a unicorn algorithm, you’d need multiple categories in order to get your first female competitors at
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New study on transgender & performance. The paper’s title could've been “Significant endurance & strength-endurance advantages are retained for up to 2 years despite T reduction in TW: Implications for
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The @dailymaverick asked me to do a piece on the trans woman in sport issue. It’s necessarily short and high level, but here it is. Writing it made me realize
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Let me share a few thoughts on the latest #Semenya development - her appeal rejected by the Swiss Supreme court, World Athletics policy supported (pretty strongly too). We are planning
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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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