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Amy Hamm: UBC law school panel frets over trans exclusion from female sport

Panellists dismissed male advantage in sports

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The University of British Columbia’s Allard School of Law, and its Centre for Feminist Legal Studies, hosted an event earlier this month titled “More than a game: the fight for gender equality and inclusion in sports.” The event’s description argued that “significant inequality, abuse, and exclusion continue to shape the global and local sporting landscape.”

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The biggest concern of the panelists was, unfortunately, ensuring that biological males who identify as women be allowed to compete in female sport categories. (Not on their list of expressed concerns: women being punched in the face by biological men in Olympic women’s boxing. Odd.)

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Panelists included Harrison Browne, transman and former National Women’s Hockey League........

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