In light of the IAAF decision on Caster Semenya here's my blog on why testing (and regulating) testosterone in women's sport is a waste of timehttps://link.medium.com/9C6sn4qHnW
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Replying to @GidMK
It seems clear that athletes like Semenya have an advantage -- I just watched her crush the field in Doha -- so the question is how to ensure that no one has an unfair advantage, recognizing that people have all sorts of biological differences. See also: https://www.letsrun.com/news/2019/05/what-no-one-is-telling-you-about-caster-semenya-she-has-xy-chromosomes/ …
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Replying to @kimbbellard
If course she has an advantage. But every elite athlete has an advantage, and there are athletes better than Semenya who we don't attack so
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Replying to @GidMK
There aren't athletes in women's races better than her, nor are there likely to be, which is the problem. The point of rules in sports is that no elite athlete has an unfair advantage over another.
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Replying to @kimbbellard
There have previously been athletes better than her, and the top 10 or so runners beat each other all the time anyway. Her best time may be the 4th best of all time, but if she's got an unfair advantage so do most of her peers
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Replying to @GidMK @kimbbellard
And if we consider those who are unbeatable to have unfair advantages, what of Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt?
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Replying to @GidMK
This is essentially a man competing against women. If you don't consider that unfair, then I'm not sure what the point of women's sports is.
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Replying to @kimbbellard
It's not, that's the whole point. There is no scientific basis for using testosterone levels as a gender delineator
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Replying to @GidMK
I'm not basing it on the testosterone, but on "her" XY chromosome, as was pointed out in the article I linked to earlier. Unless you are, in fact, saying any man should be able to compete in women's races, where is the line to be drawn?
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