World track bans transgender women from competition

Good to hear. Finally some sanity.

 

So what happens to the South African hurdler who is genetically XXY and was banned from competition. Then got pregnant and gave birth. All of this is above my pay scale.

 

Exactly how it should be let sports governing associations make the decisions themselves. Govt has no role

 

They already banned her, they decided women's sports is about hormones levels unless they werent born women, then it isn't. They are all over the place on this issue.

 

But JJ will be so sad for the .0000001 whose feelings were hurt.

 

If you are biologically a male I don't care what your hormone levels are, you shouldn't need, want, or have to compete against a biological female

 

The didn't ban her but they did require that she take a testosterone inhibitor if she wanted to participate in the 400 an event that she had dominated. She refused and didn't do quite as well in the longer distances in which she was allowed to compete. She was banned from the 400 and 800 but was allowed to compete in the 1500. She also tried to compete in the 5,000 and didn't even make the finals.

 

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What if you are biologically both male and female?

 

What about state sanctioned athletics?

 

You mean we didn’t need big guv regulating sports competition afterall? I’m shocked.

 

Like her?
https://theweek.com/articles/507384/sarah-gronert-new-tennis-gender-war

 

Exactly. Sometimes states will have to make the call.

 

nah they don’t lose the desire to compete. I think you could have another class in some events like say triathletes. I am no longer competing in the big events but I’m always benchmarking against PR’s (sadly not so well). I used to be a local cycling god…

 

Don't they usually still have some sort of appointed oversight board?

 

That is a more difficult question and a very RARE situation I would assume (horrible word to use) that the parents at birth would make the decision as to how that child will live

 

Sure, but it's still "the government" if it's s the government sanctioning the board.

 

She had to take a testosterone inhibitor...