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 is stated as fact, but simply entirely untrue. The IAAF rules don't even mention "biological" sex, focusing entirely on "competitive advantage"pic.twitter.com/wfBaQ45ibH
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This is baldly wrong. There are innumerable intersex/non-intersex conditions that can cause hyperandrogenism (high testosterone)pic.twitter.com/gimlmnXpu7
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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 overall
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