Well, it shouldn't be controversial. Very few people want to see athletes with testes competing against athletes with ovaries.
It really shouldn't. But if competitors are mad they have to go through it, they have only the trans athletes who wanted to run as women to blame. I imagine the progressive types will try to spin this as some oppressive move of the patriarchy, but the big bad patriarchy used to just take women's word for it and it turns out not to be good enough anymore.
One of the most common rebuttals I see from leftists when they are confronted over men in women's sports (aside from the usual "It's not happening") is that enforcing the gender rules would require some kind of mandatory "genital inspection" by officials. Cenk Uygur invokes this argument regularly.
It's of course always been nonsense. Birth certificates exist and the 6'2" "girl" with a mustache and adams apple usually sticks out to most keen observers. However, this simple cheek swab renders than argument completely null and void.
It's of course always been nonsense. Birth certificates exist and the 6'2" "girl" with a mustache and adams apple usually sticks out to most keen observers. However, this simple cheek swab renders than argument completely null and void.
I am pretty much sure Imane Khelif and Lin Yu Ting were assigned female at birth.
It should be worth noting that the screen (I misused "testing" in the title) for SRY should not be the final say. Those folks would then need to have follow up testing and examinations done as there are conditions where the SRY is present and things go awry.
Referral to a medical professional for diagnosis of a medical condition. Identify developmental paths through additional testing.
Determination if any male development has taken place such as going through puberty as a male.
The IAAF used to do this and would give women (XX chromosomes) an official card saying they were eligible for the women’s category. They should have kept this system in place and avoided all the BS cheating that has taken place in the last few decades. The women’s category is designed to give women (XX chromosomes) with a level playing field to compete, not a support group for men with gender dysphoria.
The IAAF used to do this and would give women (XX chromosomes) an official card saying they were eligible for the women’s category. They should have kept this system in place and avoided all the BS cheating that has taken place in the last few decades. The women’s category is designed to give women (XX chromosomes) with a level playing field to compete, not a support group for men with gender dysphoria.
As long as endosex supremacists like yourself post this "xx" BS, I will keep posting the story of Maria Jose Martinez Patino.
This new WA policy allows athletes like Martinez Patino to ask for a follow-up test of their choice so that they will not be unfairly disqualified.
