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The UCI recently proposed halving the permissible testosterone threshold for transgender women athletes from 10 nmol/L to 5. The news is another step in the governing body’s struggle to accommodate transgender athletes without discrimination, while ensuring fairness for all.

As mountain bikers, we like to think we’re inclusive people, but I don’t

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