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articles and early access to Colette social events. And this week's guest

will be a familiar name to those listeners who've been following Colette since the late 2010s.

Some of you might remember a blockbuster 2019 article entitled A Victory for Female Athletes

Everywhere by a Duke Law School professor and former US national collegiate

indoor 800 meter champion, Dorian Lambelay Coleman. In that article Coleman made the case for upholding

rules that protect the integrity of female athletic

categories from the encroachments of trans-identified biological men who assert a female gender identity.

Some Colette readers may also recognize Coleman as the

author of a 2021 article whose byline was shared with tennis legend Martina

Navratilova arguing the same principles. Of course Coleman isn't the only Colette author and

podcast guest we featured who argues for these points but she is unusual to such

extent that she's not only a former elite athlete but also a legal scholar at one of

America's best law schools just the sort of progressive academic bastion where a

maximalist expression of trans rights is often presented as non-negotiable.

And Coleman has indeed taken her share of abuse online and at public speaking events,

but the world has changed since 2019.

And Coleman's views are no longer universally dismissed as quote unquote

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