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# How can we include transgender and intersex athletes?
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/how-can-we-include-transgender-and-intersex-athletes/
- Published: 2018-01-09T14:43:10.000Z
- Updated: 2018-01-09T14:43:10.000Z
- Description: Inclusion of transgender and intersex people in athletics to be discussed at a free event at the University of Brighton. Joanna Harper, a medical physicist and transgender athlete from the USA, and Professor Yannis Pitsiladis, the University’s Professor of Sport and Exercise Science, will discuss c
- Author: Besi
- Tags: In The South, News, Sport, Sports, Transgender, University of Brighton

## Inclusion of transgender and intersex people in athletics to be discussed at a free event at the University of Brighton.

![Professor Yannis Pitsiladis](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/web-600-15.jpg)

Professor Yannis Pitsiladis

**Joanna Harper**, a medical physicist and transgender athlete from the USA, and **Professor Yannis Pitsiladis**, the University’s Professor of Sport and Exercise Science, will discuss claims of unfairness levelled at transgender competitors who are considered to have an advantage over those born female.

**Ms Harper**, based at Providence Portland Medical Centre in Oregon, and **Professor Pitsiladis**, who researches the detection of drugs in sport, will present a roadmap to guide the implementation of rules for the inclusion for transgender and intersex athletes.

![Joanna Harper](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/web-600-1-2.jpg)

Joanna Harper

**Both argue:** *“In the attempt to separate athletes into male and female categories, one should only look at those sex and/or gender based qualities that are important for athletic performance.”*

They propose that evidence-based scientific research should be the foundation for making decisions on participation in sex-segregated sports and suggest that the concept of an athletic gender should be established in order to facilitate this segregation.

Professor Pitsiladis said the discussion addresses an increasingly important subject: *“Sporting bodies remain entangled in debate over how to include transgender and intersex athletes with high levels of bio-available testosterone in competition with cisgender athletes. The recent ruling by the highest court in Germany in favour of the introduction of a third gender category for individuals who do not identify as either male or female or are born with an ambiguous sexual anatomy has brought this important matter to a fore.*

*“At this event, Joanna and I hope to present a roadmap towards a fair, objective and scientifically meaningful integration of transgender and intersex athletes into elite sport and in a manner that is consistent with the Olympic Charter.”*

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**Event:** Beyond Fairness

**Where:** Sallis Benney Theatre, 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton BN2 0JY

**When:** Tuesday, March 20

**Time:** 6.30pm

**Cost:** Free entry

**To register attendance, [click here:](http://www.brighton.ac.uk/openlectures?ref=scenemag.co.uk)**