1/ This is a summary of my take on the controversy surrounding Olympic boxing. If any facts are wrong, please help me correct them. Sorry for the long thread. 2/ Two boxers have been allowed to compete in the Olympics despite failing a sex verification test by the IBA around the time of the 2023 World Championships.

SVENSKA FOTBOLLSKRISEN! Vi går in i 2024 med nya vindar hos SvFF och en het debatt kring ”krisen” i svensk fotboll och svensk talangutveckling. Även om forskning kan ge betydande insikter sitter ingen på facit vilket gör det extra intressant att diskutera. 🧵 Jag börjar med att betona att jag här endast fokuserar på att få fram toppspelare till landslaget. Det finns såklart många andra mål med fotbollsverksamheten som inte berörs här.

Big development on transgender in sport today. UK Sports has done the most comprehensive investigation on the subject in the world to date. And I think they got the situation largely right. 1/X equalityinsport.org/resources/inde… Here are some quotes than deserves to be highlighted:
All of the Sports Councils are committed to the inclusion of transgender people in sport and physical activity 2/

THREAD. A limitation in the current transgender athlete debate is the lack of longitudinal data on actual trans athletes who have transitioned. A common argument is that trained trans women would lose more muscle mass/strength than the so far studied untrained population. 1/6 MRI data suggest that in very trained, men have at least 30% more leg muscle mass than women. Thus, the drop in muscle mass with T suppression would have to average 20% to compare with females. This is an extraordinary figure compared with the typical 5% seen in untrained. 2/6