ROSS TUCKER talks with WRN - Colliding Rights in Sports - Sports Series Episode 2

Send us Fan MailIn this week's podcast Tessa and Corinne are delighted to be joined by Prof. Ross Tucker from The Real Science of Sport podcast. Ross takes time out of his busy schedule to talk to us about his job at World Rugby and how he found himself in the middle of discussions about the integrity of women's sport.  ·        World Rugby's Transgender Workshop ·        The conflation of the inclusion of DSD athletes with trans inclusion into women's sport ·        IOC's new Transgender Guidelines·        The lack of women's voices in discussion·        Lack of female representation in NGB/no accountability·        Testosterone suppression as a solution·        Where has evidence based decision making gone? Emotion over facts·        Why do we need men and women's categories?·        Joanna Harper's current research ·        Ross's favourite cake References: https://www.world.rugby/the-game/player-welfare/guidelines/transgender https://olympics.com/ioc/news/ioc-releases-framework-on-fairness-inclusion-and-non-discrimination-on-the-basis-of-gender-identity-and-sex-variations#SaveWomensSports #womensrightsnetwork #fairplayforwomen #womensfootball #cycling #womenscycling #sexnotgender #football #olympics #scienceofsport Where to find Ross:He is @Scienceofsport on Twitter and is one half of the podcast The Science of Sport podcast [email protected] you enjoyed listening to this podcast and would like to hear more, go to womensrights.network/wrn-podcast to listen, download and subscribe to more of our episodes.  You can also find more news, articles and videos on our substack at https://womensrightsnetwork.substack.comAnd if you’d like to join our live conversations, go to womensrights.network/join-wrn