Tag: Leslie Howe
When Ideology Trumps Science: A response to the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sportโs Review on Transwomen Athletes in the Female Category
A group of scientists and humanities scholars has written an expert commentary about the recently published โScientific Reviewโ by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport about transwomenโs participation in female sport. The CCES Review, claim the authors, doesnโt deserve its name; it is wholly unscientific, another attempt to replace materially based eligibility criteria in sport with โsocial identityโ as a passport to inclusion, and they highlight its shortcomings in methodology, and its sometimes incoherent, sometimes misleading argumentation.