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Sport NZ’s transgender guidelines are a good start – but can they filter up from grassroots to elite competition?

  • Written by Holly Thorpe, Professor in Sociology of Sport and Gender, University of Waikato
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The release this week of Sport NZ’s new Guiding Principles for the Inclusion of Transgender People in Community Sport caused a minor and predictable controversy. One former parliamentarian called the guidelines “woke ideology”. Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson responded that such opposition was “petty and...

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