Integrity is needed in the regulation of transgender athletes and athletes with sex variations
Br J Sports Med
.
2026 Jan 15;60(1):4-5.
doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2025-110042.
Authors
Madeleine Pape
1
,
Anna Posbergh
2
,
Sheree Bekker
3
,
Michele Donnelly
4
,
Ke Hu
5
,
Luci Olewinski
6
,
Roger Pielke Jr
7
8
,
Yannis P Pitsiladis
5
,
Tiffany Thomas
9
,
Eric Vilain
10
,
Alun G Williams
11
12
13
Affiliations
1
Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland madeleine.pape@unil.ch.
2
Sport Management, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
3
Department for Health, University of Bath, Bath, UK.
4
Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
5
Department of Sport, Physical Education and Health, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong.
6
Family Medicine, The University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
7
University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
8
American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC, USA.
9
Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA.
10
Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, USA.
11
Institute of Sport, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK.
12
Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health, University College London, London, UK.
13
Applied Sports, Technology, Exercise and Medicine Research Centre (A-STEM), Faculty of Science and Engineering, Swansea University, Swansea, UK.
PMID:
41412739
DOI:
10.1136/bjsports-2025-110042
No abstract available
Keywords:
Athletic Performance; Ethics; Research; Sports medicine; Women in sport.
Publication types
Editorial