But Steve, aren’t all elite athletes weird genetic mutants?
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But not as weird as the three medalists in the 2016 Olympics "women's" 800m. This is a problem for the Olympics because while people with intersex birth defects are extremely rare, there are enough of them somewhere in the world to make a farce out of women's Olympic events.
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This is admittedly an extreme example, but I’ve wondered for a while if there’s any profound difference in androgen doping vs. being born with mutations that upregulate testosterone production
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"Advocates for intersex athletes like to say that sex doesn’t divide neatly. This may be true in gender studies departments, but at least for competitive sports purposes, they are simply wrong" -that would be something
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Why have women's events at all? They want equality, let's give it to them. After two or three years of no women's medalists at all, it will be interesting to see what they propose; it might even include a return to men's & women's events based on documentable biology. The horror!
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I'm looking forward to watching the "High-T 100m dash" next Olympics.
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Frankly I'm not a fan of segregating sports at all. In all other areas non-egalitarians want to allow inborn advantages to proceed, and win the day. But when it comes to sex and sports, we suddenly get queasy. What would the world lose if a female never took sprinting gold?
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Not just a social construct after all, eh? Who knew.
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Still not good enough, certainly. They can lower their testosterone to compete as women but they still had the benefit of that testosterone when it was building their bodies. Chromosomes are the only way. If not chromosomes, w/i 10 years most womens' events will be won by men.
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Inb4 she gets hate mobs demanding she be fired.
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Sports should have a women's division, and an open division. Intersex competes in open, not women's.
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