The Science of the Trans Athlete Debate, Made Easy(ish)
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Pablo Torre
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
The culture war around a tiny population of competitors may have led to the re-election of Donald Trump, who says nationwide bans on Day One aren't complicated. But biology is complicated. And David Epstein — greatest sports science reporter in America, author of The Sports Gene, writer of the Range Widely newsletter — did the research, so that the suspicious and/or sympathetic among us don't necessarily have to. Turns out, there are solutions upon which fact-based humans can agree, in case studies from childbirth to high-jump junk, college volleyball to Olympic boxing, nature to nurture... and nipple.
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Link on The Sports Gene: https://davidepstein.com/david-epstein-the-sports-gene/
Link on Range Widely: https://davidepstein.substack.com/
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| 0:32.4 | Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. |
| 0:34.5 | I am Pablo Torre. |
| 0:35.9 | Today, we're going to find out what this sound is. |
| 0:39.1 | Why Men Have Nipples, which we can talk about. But it's a good title. |
| 0:42.0 | At one point, they were toying with that for the title of the whole book, and I'm like, we cannot. |
| 0:46.3 | Right after this ad. |
| 0:49.0 | You're listening to Draft Kings Network You are the greatest sports science writer in America, arguably the world, |
| 1:07.6 | although I don't travel the world as much as they travel America. |
| 1:09.8 | You always say that, and I like to add to that caveat, like out of all three of us, you know. |
| 1:15.0 | You're underselling yourself. |
| 1:16.7 | I'm a science writer, an investigative reporter. |
| 1:19.2 | And the other half of the former Sports Illustrated, I don't remember what corner of the building we were in, but we were part of the SI fact-jic department. |
| 1:27.7 | The disgusting brothers in the corner of the Sports Illustrated. |
| 1:31.0 | Playing ping pong when they should have been making sure that some SEC team's record was correct. |
| 1:38.4 | It is funny that we kept on referring to our mini ping pong wars because you were also actually |
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