Prof Alun Williams
@profalunwilliams.bsky.social
Researcher at Manchester Metropolitan University studying sport performance, genetics, rugby, sex and gender, training
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📢 Speakers confirmed!
🏅 Our online course on gender regulation in sport brings together leading experts and athletes to tackle the big questions of inclusion, fairness and human rights in international sport.
📅 15–17 Oct 2025
💻 Online via Zoom
🔗 Register now: bit.ly/45RGJsO
🏅 Our online course on gender regulation in sport brings together leading experts and athletes to tackle the big questions of inclusion, fairness and human rights in international sport.
📅 15–17 Oct 2025
💻 Online via Zoom
🔗 Register now: bit.ly/45RGJsO
October 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
📢 Speakers confirmed!
🏅 Our online course on gender regulation in sport brings together leading experts and athletes to tackle the big questions of inclusion, fairness and human rights in international sport.
📅 15–17 Oct 2025
💻 Online via Zoom
🔗 Register now: bit.ly/45RGJsO
🏅 Our online course on gender regulation in sport brings together leading experts and athletes to tackle the big questions of inclusion, fairness and human rights in international sport.
📅 15–17 Oct 2025
💻 Online via Zoom
🔗 Register now: bit.ly/45RGJsO
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We're making our mark after being named Modern University of the Year! The prestigious honour highlights our exceptional performance in teaching quality, student satisfaction, research, and graduate outcomes.
Thank you to our colleagues, students and partners!
#McrMetProud
Thank you to our colleagues, students and partners!
#McrMetProud
September 19, 2025 at 6:11 AM
We're making our mark after being named Modern University of the Year! The prestigious honour highlights our exceptional performance in teaching quality, student satisfaction, research, and graduate outcomes.
Thank you to our colleagues, students and partners!
#McrMetProud
Thank you to our colleagues, students and partners!
#McrMetProud
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French women's boxing team barred from world championships after late gender tests
French women's boxing team barred from world championships after late gender tests
The team had traveled to the United Kingdom to undergo genetic sex tests that are banned in France but newly mandatory under the championships' regulations. Assured the tests would arrive on time, the French team slammed World Boxing's decision to reject them after the deadline passed.
www.lemonde.fr
September 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
French women's boxing team barred from world championships after late gender tests
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WORLD ATHLETICS’ MANDATORY GENETIC TEST FOR WOMEN ATHLETES IS MISGUIDED. I SHOULD KNOW – I DISCOVERED THE RELEVANT GENE IN 1990
By Professor Andrew Sinclair, Deputy Director of the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
theconversation.com/world-athlet...
By Professor Andrew Sinclair, Deputy Director of the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
theconversation.com/world-athlet...
World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990
World Athletics says its genetic test for women ensures ‘the integrity of women’s sport’ – but science does not support this overly simplistic idea.
theconversation.com
August 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
WORLD ATHLETICS’ MANDATORY GENETIC TEST FOR WOMEN ATHLETES IS MISGUIDED. I SHOULD KNOW – I DISCOVERED THE RELEVANT GENE IN 1990
By Professor Andrew Sinclair, Deputy Director of the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
theconversation.com/world-athlet...
By Professor Andrew Sinclair, Deputy Director of the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
theconversation.com/world-athlet...
Reposting in light of @worldathletics.org re-introducing genetic testing of young women/girls. Transgender athlete eligibility can be regulated without genetic testing. Mass genetic testing, and follow up clinical examination for some, is not justified, ethical, or viable.
Fair and Safe Eligibility Criteria for Women's Sport: The Proposed Testing Regime Is Not Justified, Ethical, or Viable - Williams - 2024 - Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Fair and Safe Eligibility Criteria for Women's Sport: The Proposed Testing Regime Is Not Justified, Ethical, or Viable
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Reposting in light of @worldathletics.org re-introducing genetic testing of young women/girls. Transgender athlete eligibility can be regulated without genetic testing. Mass genetic testing, and follow up clinical examination for some, is not justified, ethical, or viable.
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BREAKING: Two-time Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya wins a partial victory at the European Court of Human Rights in her seven-year legal fight against track and field’s sex eligibility rules.
Human rights court rules Olympic champion runner Semenya did not get fair hearing in Switzerland
Two-time Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya has won a partial victory at the European Court of Human Rights in her seven-year legal fight against track and field’s sex eligibility rules.
bit.ly
July 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
BREAKING: Two-time Olympic champion runner Caster Semenya wins a partial victory at the European Court of Human Rights in her seven-year legal fight against track and field’s sex eligibility rules.
The International Olympic Committee framework on fairness, inclusion and nondiscrimination on the basis of gender identity and sex variations does not protect fairness for female athletes 2024 - Scand J Medicine & Science in Sports - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The International Olympic Committee framework on fairness, inclusion and nondiscrimination on the basis of gender identity and sex variations does not protect fairness for female athletes
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) recently published a framework on fairness, inclusion, and nondiscrimination on the basis of gender identity and sex variations. Although we appreciate the I...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The International Olympic Committee framework on fairness, inclusion and nondiscrimination on the basis of gender identity and sex variations does not protect fairness for female athletes 2024 - Scand J Medicine & Science in Sports - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Fair and Safe Eligibility Criteria for Women's Sport: The Proposed Testing Regime Is Not Justified, Ethical, or Viable - Williams - 2024 - Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Fair and Safe Eligibility Criteria for Women's Sport: The Proposed Testing Regime Is Not Justified, Ethical, or Viable
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Fair and Safe Eligibility Criteria for Women's Sport: The Proposed Testing Regime Is Not Justified, Ethical, or Viable - Williams - 2024 - Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Variants within the MMP3 and COL5A1 genes associate with soft tissue injury history in elite male rugby athletes - Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport www.jsams.org/article/S144...
Variants within the MMP3 and COL5A1 genes associate with soft tissue injury history in elite male rugby athletes
To investigate associations between genetic variants within COLGALT1, COL1A1, COL3A1,
COL5A1, KDR, MIR608, MMP3, NID1, TIMP2 and VEGFA and injury history in elite male
rugby athletes.
www.jsams.org
July 3, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Variants within the MMP3 and COL5A1 genes associate with soft tissue injury history in elite male rugby athletes - Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport www.jsams.org/article/S144...
Eligibility of Athletes With a Difference in Sex Development in Elite Sport: Opinions of National, Elite and World Class Athletes - Fife - 2025 - European Journal of Sport Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Eligibility of Athletes With a Difference in Sex Development in Elite Sport: Opinions of National, Elite and World Class Athletes
There have been limited studies allowing key stakeholders the opportunity to voice their opinions on DSD athlete participation in elite sport. The purpose of this study was to survey athletes eligibl....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Eligibility of Athletes With a Difference in Sex Development in Elite Sport: Opinions of National, Elite and World Class Athletes - Fife - 2025 - European Journal of Sport Science - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Full article: The perspective of current and retired world class, elite and national athletes on the inclusion and eligibility of transgender athletes in elite sport www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The perspective of current and retired world class, elite and national athletes on the inclusion and eligibility of transgender athletes in elite sport
There has been limited empirical study allowing athletes to voice their opinions on transgender participation in elite sport. This study surveyed 175 national, elite and world class athletes eligib...
www.tandfonline.com
July 3, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Full article: The perspective of current and retired world class, elite and national athletes on the inclusion and eligibility of transgender athletes in elite sport www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....