"Researchers Say Dividing Men and Women in Sports Doesn’t Work Anymore"

By : shawn
Desperate to figure out how to include transgender athletes into the male/female sports dichotomy, researchers from New Zealand’s University of Otago say it is up to sports leagues to change the way they look at the gender divide.

Instead of opening up a third division or requiring transgender athletes to compete with the sex of their birth, the researchers say it is important to deal with the problem with a “more nuanced approach.”

...“To be simultaneously inclusive and fair at the elite level the male/ female binary must be discarded in favour of a more nuanced approach. We conclude that the gender binary in sport has perhaps had its day.

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