Last week, Basketball Australia revealed it had denied an athlete’s application to play for a semi-professional women’s basketball league.  It made global headlines and is fuelling a debate about how our biology impacts our ability to run, jump and compete against one another. This is because Lexi Rodgers is a transgender athlete. Her bid to play the sport she loves strikes at the very heart of some of the most pressing issues of our time: human rights, discrimination and a fear - and love - of challenging the status quo. Today, sports reporter Carla Jaeger joins Samantha Selinger-Morris to discuss the tight rope sports organisations are treading in their struggle to enable all athletes to have a fair go.Subscribe to The Age & SMH: https://subscribe.smh.com.au/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.