"I'm ashamed of my performance at that panel because I share your position 100 percent and I was cowed,"
"If we did a replay of that exact panel at the Sloan conference this coming March, it runs in exactly the opposite direction,"
"And it would be, I suspect, near unanimity in the room that trans athletes have no place in the female category. I don't think there's any question."
"Malcolm Gladwell says "trans athletes have no place in the female category." He admits he was cowed into saying that it was ok. He knows it's not. He was bullied into it and he's ashamed that he gave in. Good for him. Mad props."
Malcolm Gladwell said he regretted moderating a 2022 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference panel on trans athletes because he felt 'cowed' into supporting their participation. He said he was 'objective in a dishonest way' and felt ashamed of his performance. Gladwell claimed most audience members privately opposed trans athletes in female categories, alleging '90 percent' agreed but only '5 percent' admitted it publicly. He predicted that a replay of the panel would yield near-unanimous agreement that 'trans athletes have no place in the female category.' His remarks prompted swift criticism on social media.
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