Hold Transfer wrote:
Cal is upset that USADA requires a lot of personal medical information before granting TUEs, but every athlete that wants a TUE needs to submit personal medical information before being granted an exception.
USADA's approach seems to be protecting the integrity of the nonbinary division. What's to prevent someone from gaming the system and competing in the division for some relatively easy money? There are no reports of it happening yet, but it's definitely not inconceivable that it will start happening if rules are lax.
do you not get where a nonbinary division might have to have a different comfort level with hormones? just inherently. i get why in a binary box setup you need substance bans or limits and TUEs. that girl over there you're running against isn't on this stuff. but i thought the whole discussion on intersex -- who the conservatives want to pretend don't exist (eg semenya has some portion of both types of genitals, not just testes)-- is dealing with some of the issues impacting the trans people like taking hormones or naturally higher levels which wouldn't usually exist without drugs in traditional gendered divisions.
so, you create a nonbinary division, solve the categories issue, but we clamp down on hormones like it's still men and women? aren't we defeating the point to "protect integrity?" to be fair you could maybe have limits but probably higher limits since so many people would be on hormonal therapies.