Key criticisms of Wiik et al (2020) Population: We do not know how many cis men and cis women participate d in the study. We don’t know what is going on with cis people: is there an increase or a decrease? No intra- group comparison s This paper has several…

Myth buster natural testosterone produces an unfair advantage. By Kirsti Miller Current science suggests that any advantage that might be conferred by elevated T levels is so complex that testosterone levels alone are a nearly useless indicator of advantage, and certainly not an appropriate measure for determining eligibility. Even if…

Human beings are incredibly diverse and the variation within the categories of ‘men’ and ‘women’ is far higher than the variation between categories. By Kirsti Miller We actually segregate sport for physiological reasons. Biology just came along for the ride. There is no clear biological list of features that allow…

Transgender Athletes Inclusion In Sports, key Biomedical & Sociocultural Findings. by Kirsti Miller There are competing ways of conceptualizing (“epistemologies”) trans women’s participation in elite sport which impact framing, research, and movements forward, which can be characterized in terms of where each locates and how each frames ‘unfairness’. The first…

Elite sports have an opportunity to be at the forefront of evidence-based, broader, transformational change to counter transphobia, transmisogyny, cissexism and other overlapping systems of oppression enacted through sport systems. By Kirsti Miller They have the opportunity to fight against transphobia in sport and more broadly to increase fairness and…

There is currently no substantial research evidence of any biological advantages that would impede the fairness of trans women competing in elite women’s sport. There currently exists no evidence to suggest that trans women who elect to suppress testosterone (through, for example, gender affirming hormone therapy and/or surgical gonad removal)…

Myths About Trans Women Circulated in Sport By Kirsti Miller There are myths surrounding trans women in sport. It is a myth perpetuated by and through sport that trans women are akin to cis men. Biomedical studies that inform trans sport policies have cis men as a proxy to trans…

Discrimination and Violence Against Trans Women Trans women are subjected to discrimination and violence. The living conditions of trans women are the result of downward social mobility and the many cissexist discriminations they experience in this context. Surveys on the living conditions of trans women in Canada show a strong…

Social Factors in Keeping Women’s Sport Inferior to Men’s By Kirsti Miller There are many social factors involved in keeping the women’s category of sport inferior to the men’s. Women are banned from sports competitions. For example, women’s marathon was absent from the Olympics Games for 84 years (Vilain et…