Best selling Canadian author and journalist Malcolm Gladwell has U-turned on his support for trans athletes, claiming he is now “ashamed” of being “cowed” into supporting their cause.

Gladwell, a longtime contributor to The New Yorker and who is best known for his 2000 book The Tipping Point, appeared on the most recent episode of The Real Science of Sport podcast and said he regretted his appearance at the 2022 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference where he moderated a panel on the participation of trans athletes in sport.

The author said he was “objective in a dishonest way.”

“I’m ashamed of my performance at that panel because I share your position 100 percent and I was cowed,” Gladwell told Ross Tucker, who had also been on the MIT panel in 2022.

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