Bonus episode: It is time to choose: How a new transgender guidance policy shifts the conversation and demands difficult decisions

The Real Science of Sport Podcast · Oct 1, 2021 · 27m

The UK Sports Councils have released guidelines on transgender participation in sport, following an exhaustive and comprehensive review process. The two key points made are: 1) to confirm that the current policy that suppresses testosterone for twelve months is not fit for purpose, because advantages are retained even after testosterone is reduced, and 2) that "categorization by sex is lawful" (it also states that this categorization remains the most useful and functional division relative to sporting performance.

The implications of those two statements alone are profound, and they…