This article is arguably the most factually wrong thing I've ever seen written, and I regularly get linked to conspiracy blogs about lizards https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/sports/track-gender-rules.html …
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This statement is simply incorrect. I'm honestly shocked that anyone would print such totally bogus assertions
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This is hilariously misleading, at best. Many Olympic athletes are high school childrenpic.twitter.com/4QAklLYYtR
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This is factually incorrect. Socioeconomic status is almost always a far bigger predictor of athletic ability than genderpic.twitter.com/TV5DnzGpB9
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And then, the end of this bullshit journey, where the author spends 3 paragraphs conflating intersex with transgender Total. Utter. Crappic.twitter.com/Acu7mnhVg6
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I should say, as
@transscribe has pointed out: this isn't just factually incorrect, it's also astonishingly transphobic, discriminatory, and just disgusting overallShow this thread
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The regs exclude PCOS, and they specify only a subset of intersex variations. These include XX CAH.
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Ah fair enough. Still, the argument that it's a single condition is still incorrect. Obviously the framing is horrific too
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