On Monday, the 43-year-old New Zealander will become the first openly transgender athlete to compete in the Olympics.
"It's certainly true there's a paucity of data," Harper said."...International sports federations need to do the best they can with data that exists. When we have better data we'll come up with better policies."
It also sets out to compare transgender athletes with athletes born female who are of similar ages, sizes and abilities in a given sport. Richard Budgett, the IOC's medical and scientific director, on Thursday said the challenge was to ensure exclusivity while also retaining fairness. Critics of the inclusion of transgender women at the Olympics say the sensitivity of the issue is an obstacle towards having a substantive debate, with fears among athletes and governing bodies about repercussions.
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