The TikTok doco series trying to unpack the debate over trans athletes

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When Rudy Jean Rigg and Hannah McElhinney started a TikTok documentary series on trans participation in sport, they could never have predicted the topic would become a national focus during the election campaign. | karlkwin

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It’s all very contemporary, but how on earth can you tackle a subject as complex as this in such short bites?Rainbow History Class,But making such tight content accessible and informative, while also enticing viewers to keep coming back for more, involves a lot of craft, he insists. “I realised I was not cisgender … but I felt that if I came out as trans, if I asserted my identity, I wouldn’t have a place in the sport. So I didn’t come out.”But for the final few years of badminton, he says he was “unhappy with myself, I couldn’t perform as well as I wanted to, because I just had so many things that I needed to deal with”.uses Rigg’s story as a way into broader issues.

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