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On a cold Melbourne winter night, Em Fox braves the cold for a leg workout. Key points: Last month, FINA voted to limit the participation of transgender women in elite women’s competitions Dr Ada Cheung says the debate around transgender athletes is disproportionate to the perceived problem While some athletes are concerned about the impact of FINA’s policies, others are broadly supportive He is happy to be here because 10 years ago he thought he would never play again. “2012 was the last year I played in the men’s soccer competition,” he said. “I’ve always found playing in the men’s team challenging, even though I may have come across as an outwardly masculine identity. “It wasn’t how I felt, and being in a hyper-masculine environment was very uncomfortable. “So when I decided not to play football anymore I thought it would have a lot of finality.” She went on to become the first openly transgender woman in the women’s VFL. But tonight, she’s training with the University of Melbourne

A schematic representation of a look into cosmic history provided by the bright glow of a distant quasar. Observing with a telescope (bottom left) allows us to gain information about the so-called reionization epoch (top right “bubble”) that followed the Big Bang phase (top right). Credit: Carnegie Institution for Science / MPIA (annotated) Astronomers determined the time when all of the neutral hydrogen gas between galaxies was produced by Big Bang The Big Bang is the leading cosmological model that explains how the universe as we know it began approximately 13.8 billion years ago. ” data-gt-translate-attributes=”[{” attribute=””>Big Bang became fully ionized. A group of astronomers has robustly timed the end of the epoch of reionization of the neutral hydrogen gas to approximately 1.1 billion years after the Big Bang. Reionization began when the first generation of stars formed after the cosmic “dark ages,” a long period when the Universe was filled with neutral gas alone witho