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The contestation of gender identities in sport

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Not enough science has meant not enough clarity nor any scientific data about ‘disproportionate advantage’ of transwomen athletes in the female sport. Alun Williams, geneticist, biomedical scientist and reader (sports and exercise genomics) at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Institute of Sport spoke to Sharda Ugra and said: “I don’t think there has been enough research to fully understand all the differences between transwomen performance or cisgender women performance. What has emerged over the last few years has been a lot of discussion and debate and not a lot of primary scientific evidence.”

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