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Hey, this is Annie.

And Samantha.

And welcome to Stuff I've Never Told You, a production of IHart Radio.

And today we are beyond excited to be joined by educator, coach, scholar, and author of the book Fair Game, Dr. Anna Bath, or Bath as you introduced yourself before we started.

Welcome to the show. We are so happy to have you. Thank you. I'm very excited to be here. Yes, we already kind of had a, we should have been recording much earlier because

we were just chatting before we started. We have a lot to cover. So can you give our audience a broader introduction? You've done a lot of yourself.

Sure. Yeah. So I'm Dr. Anna Bath. I use she her pronouns. I am a scholar. I'm a researcher. I was a two-sport college athlete.

And after graduating from college, went on to be a collegiate coach and eventually to get a PhD.

And while I was doing my PhD, I was studying women in leadership positions in sport.

And as I was finishing my graduate degree and I was looking for a job,

I was offered a position with an LGBTQ rights organization.

So this was about, I guess this was six years ago.

So I started working in the space, and I really didn't know a whole lot about the topic

of trans athletes in particular.

But all of a sudden, I was in a position where I was in charge of research for this organization,

and I was getting a lot of questions, a lot of questions about trans athletes.

And at first, I didn't really have an answer.

And so I spent five years doing a lot of my own research. I was being told

a lot of different narratives. I was being pulled in a lot of different directions. And I thought,

no, I need to figure out what I think about this. I need to do my own research and figure out what I think and what I believe to be true. And so that has culminated in this book.

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