If you need any evidence that the debate about trans people in sport has nothing to do with facts, have a look at the replies to this entirely factually accurate piecehttps://twitter.com/guardian/status/1103237681381892096 …
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Replying to @GidMK
If is factually accurate (and I’ll take your word it is) then doesn’t it undermine the whole argument for a separate category for women’s sport?
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Replying to @Jackstarbright
No, merely the criteria by which we make those distinctions
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Replying to @GidMK
So there are some usable criteria? That wasn’t clear to me from my reading of the piece.
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Replying to @Jackstarbright
Not necessarily, but the main point is that all of the criteria we've tried so far have been useless. There may be a better delineator, but no one has identified it yet
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Replying to @GidMK
As I said. With no clear, currently available delineator - women’s sports as a protected category will be on shaky ground. Which I suspect may be the real issue here and why sports women are getting so upset.
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Replying to @Jackstarbright
Except that doesn't seem to have happened in any sports so far. The Olympics started letting trans athletes participate in 2004 and had no specific regulation for intersex women for much of the last decade and yet none of the calamities have come to pass
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Replying to @GidMK
That these born-male’s can’t beat elite women athletes actually further undermines the case for women’s sport as a separate category. And maybe that is fine and the distinction between women & men had been overstated.
I’m no scientist. Interesting times.1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes
There are definitely those who argue that splitting sport by gender/sex makes no scientific sense, but I don't think that's what this particular article is about. That's a more complex social issue than the scientific question of testosterone I think!
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