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The Forward

Michael Shermer on Transgender Athletes in Sports

The Forward

Lance Armstrong

Lancearmstrong, Theforward, Sports, Arts, Wedu, Forward

4.52K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Join Lance in the fourth installment of this series focusing on transgender athletes in sports, as he is accompanied by writer and founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, Michael Shermer. They discuss the current regulations surrounding transgender athletes in sports, the lack of science in and around this topic, and what this conversation will look like in ten years.

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0:00.0

All right, Michael, we're, um, thank you for being here.

0:08.3

We've been, it seems like good buds for, for some time now.

0:11.7

You've been, you've been on the show before and, um, before we get in, and of course we're

0:16.1

talking about this issue, which is this, this entire series has been about is, is, uh,

0:23.2

trans and sport, which is, as I like to describe it, boy, this is a really complicated

0:29.7

issue, and then you have other folks that say, actually, it's not very complicated at

0:32.9

all.

0:33.9

And I'm trying to listen to, I want to hear all sides of this debate, right?

0:38.3

And, and a highly politicized, um, fear based debate, um, but before we get into that,

0:47.4

I just have to ask, because I'm so curious, you said you're going, spending some time in

0:50.7

Austin, of course, I spent 30 years there and, um, and, and, and, and, and moving back

0:56.4

there.

0:57.4

It was just there the other day.

0:58.4

He did index was 120, um, I know it was, I was like, maybe the seven months of snow,

1:09.5

wasn't that bad.

1:10.5

Right.

1:11.5

But you said you've been spent time down there, the, the, the, there's, there's a group

1:14.4

down there starting in new university called the University of Austin.

1:18.4

Right.

1:19.4

Yes.

1:20.4

Actually, a lot of people I know from California are moving to Austin, it seems to be the

1:23.0

place to go, like our mutual friend, Rogan, and a bunch of other people.

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