Trans athlete researcher rejects open category proposal at conference, says most would ‘quit their sport’

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Earlier this month, a “Play the Game” conference was held in Finland that included a panel titled, “Who Has the Right to Compete? Exploring the Inclusion of Transgender Athletes in Sport.”

The panel featured five speakers representing both sides of the controversial matter, including Joanna Marie Harper, a transgender professor at Western University in Canada.

Jon Pike, a philosophy professor at The Open University in England, argued that an open category should be created for transgender athletes to avoid any potential unfairness from biological males competing against girls and women.

Harper, though, was not a fan of the idea, because “99%” of the open category “will be…cisgender male.”

“And so what you are asking is for trans women to com