Laverne Cox is back with her own TV series about a trans woman (+more transgender news)

With ‘Clean Slate,’ Laverne Cox adds a new title to her résumé: Star and co-creator of her own show

The eight-episode series follows Desiree Slate, played by Cox, as she returns home to Mobile, Alabama, 23 years after she moved to New York as a teenager. She goes back to reconnect with her father, an old-school car wash owner named Harry — who, upon receiving an email from his estranged child, is shocked to discover that the son he expected to find on his doorstep is now a transgender woman.

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What does the science say about transgender women in sports?

There are great variations among cisgender athletes, he noted — differences in height, weight, training, and more — but no one seems to worry about those. “It is expected that about 2.3% of a normally distributed population is likely to fall above two standard deviations from a population mean,” he explained. “These exceptional individuals may be those who are gifted and excel at some sport or athletic performance.”

That means that in the general population there are bound to be people who are better at some sport because of physical ability — both natural and training-affected.

“In contrast only 0.5%–0.6% of the population identify as trans,” Oberlin continued. “There is no concern for restricting individuals who are exceptionally large or small, those who are genetically gifted, or those with differing hormone concentrations or muscle mass, so long as their gender and biologic sex align.”

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