rasnip wrote:
First we'll figure out what to do with the unfortunate "tweeners" like Semenya - I favor changing T&F from men's / women's to open and restricted divisions.
That's disgusting. If you want gays and intersexed men to take over, then make your own categories, and lobby for inclusion. But don't destroy athletics for real women.
Once that is done, the next step should be to purge every world record that was recorded before the biological passport era. The ubiquitous doping of the era makes direct comparison meaningless, particularly for women and the massive benefit they derived from 80s drugs.
There's no evidence that doping has ever helped any person, man or woman, certainly not to any meaningful level. The 2:15 marathon by Radcliffe is the most outlying mark for a woman, supposedly done without doping, which makes doping accusations to others quite meaningless.
Let's set the questionable issue of doping aside, and focus on chromosome testing, where there's a definite 10 percent difference.