Joanna Harper On Transgender Athletic Performance
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We spent a surprising amount of the week discussing summer camps and John Stockton’s mid 90’s trips to Ireland, and we had a great chat with Joanna Harper, a competitive runner who transitioned a number of years ago, and since then has become one of the leading voices in this area. She’s now a medical physicist and an advisor to many international sports federations and is based at Loughborough University in the UK, where she’s researching transgender athletic performance.
World swimming’s governing body FINA this week voted to restrict the participation of transgender athletes in elite international women’s competitions.
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