Speaker Profile

Joanna Harper is the visiting fellow for transgender athletic performance and a PhD researcher at Loughborough University in England. Ms Harper co-authored a systematic review of hormone-based changes in non-athletic transgender women published in the BJSM. Ms Harper published the first peer-reviewed study on the performance of transgender athletes and is the author of the book Sporting Gender: The history, science, and stories of transgender and intersex athletes. Ms Harper has worked with several major sports-governing bodies concerning eligibility policy for transgender and intersex athletes.