@Karkazis and I wrote a piece last year about this - basically, the study they are using to back up this decision threw t-tests at a continuous variable until some results popped out http://www.cecileparkmedia.com/world-sports-advocate/article_template.asp?Contents=Yes&from=wslr&ID=2000 …
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This passage is basically nonsense. There is ~no evidence~ that hyperandrogenism is consistently associated with improved athletic abilitypic.twitter.com/ihd6giquSu
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That being said, even if it was, who cares? We don't stop extra-tall people from playing basketball or people with large shoulders from swimming These testosterone rules are just another sexist delineation for womens' sport
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Unless we start eliminating everyone with a 'natural advantage', this entire argument is totally pointless Because it has nothing to do with advantage, natural or otherwise
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I also wrote a blog about this last year, which reminded me of a really good point: If you go by the IAAF's study, for the vast majority of events women with hyperandrogenism have no advantage at all https://medium.com/@gidmk/testing-testosterone-is-a-waste-of-time-684917805957 …pic.twitter.com/l0ljUmvWLS
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So even using the IAAF's OWN EVIDENCE, you could quite easily conclude that actually hyperandrogenism confers no competitive advantage for the vast majority of sports
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It's also important to remember that delineating 'female' from 'male' competitors in sport is drenched in a long history of very disturbing misogyny https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262107011_The_Science_of_Fair_Play_in_Sport_Gender_and_the_Politics_of_Testing …pic.twitter.com/wO0ufU2CaJ
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Many factors can give a competitive edge like nutrition,age,height,weight, access to coaching and training facilities, and other genetic and biological variations like oxygen-carrying capacity. Oh over 800m increased testosterone levels accounts for 1.8% performance advantage.
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A 2014 study, ‘Endocrine profiles in 693 elite athletes in the post-competition setting’, found that 16.5% of the ‘male’ athletes had low testosterone levels, and 13.7% of the ‘females’ had high testosterone levels, ‘with complete overlap between the sexes’. 1/
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The report concluded: ‘The IOC definition of a woman as one who has a ‘normal’ testosterone level is untenable’. In other words, elite athletes have testosterone levels that differ widely from those that might be considered ‘normal’ in the general population. 2/
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