Olympic Track Officials to Require Sex Tests for Female Athletes
Olympic Track Officials to Require Sex Tests for Female Athletes
The change affects women with atypical genetics who have been able to compete if they suppressed their testosterone levels.
Just the females? Doesn’t seem equal. Edit: y’all get sarcasm, right?
OK, so hold up. This isn't testing if a woman is trans. This test also disqualifies cis women who have genetic conditions that give them masculine physical traits. This article gives examples of women's gold medalists who are cis but would now be disqualified.
We might have to replace the men's and women's categories with "open" and "two X chromosomes". Cis and trans people of all genders might be surprised to find whether or not they qualify for the "two X chromosomes" category. Particularly effeminate cis men might qualify for "two X chromosomes". This actually seems like a fair way to level the playing field, accomplishing what the current men's and women's divisions try to do.
I am a little worried about the idea of disqualifying athletes for having beneficial genes. This could have implications beyond women's sports, like being banned from basketball for being too tall.
Imagine putting in the work to qualify for the Olympics only to find out you're not a "real" woman by some arbitrary definitions. Michael Phelps has physical characteristics that gave him an edge in his particular sport, but people only tried to talk about his weed use as a disqualifying factor
That's definitely going to ruin people's athletic careers, but at least this arbitrary definition has some merit in athletics. It's important to say that getting disqualified this way doesn't make someone a less "real" woman. Women can get disqualified from events this way. That's why I'd rename them to the "open" and "two X chromosomes" contests.
That man has too many amino strings in his DNA that resembles fish DNA.
DSQ
What about athletes with genetics that happen to give them athletic advantages that have nothing at all to do with sex?
Or athletes from wealthy backgrounds who had greater opportunity to train and condition than poorer athletes?
This is all so silly to me.
But remember, men can have huge genetic advantages and they're just athletes. Michael Phelps doesn't have an unfair advantage of anything.
Like, to see how good they are at it?
Awe, I wanted to post that
Whelp, yet another thing I won't be watching/supporting anymore.
Why can't we just have everyone compete all together and just have their gender be next to their name?
The men need to protest, and we need the names of the individuals at the organization who are still failing to stop this with each passing day.