This is a travesty, based on arguably the worst piece of research I've ever seen. The arguments for limiting testosterone in female athletes are total pseudoscience https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/sports/caster-semenya.html#click=https://t.co/tCfSAXhn05 …
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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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I agree. We should have only one category in sport - fastest human - and let generics do its thing. This regulation of sport is nonsense.
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