Kieran was joined on The Hard Shoulder by former Olympic swimmer for Great Britain, Sharron Davies.

She has been vocal for a long time in the debate around transgender people in sport - an issue which has come to ahead recently with Lia Thomas in college swimming in the US, and more recently with Emily Bridges in cycling in the UK...

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