>> At least the Olympic committee have at least resolved one important issue - how to
>> tell a woman from a man without examining genitalia, a process which most others would
>> understand. Testosterone levels are the key!
I confess I haven't looked at the detail of this but it seems to me that if you follow it to its logical conclusion then you can ignore both sex (physical characteristics at birth?) and gender (as self-defined?) and divide the competitions into testosterone bands. Perhaps a 2 dimensional matrix with substance-assisted and substance-free categories, accompanied by 5,000 pages on what a substance is and how much can be in the bloodstream.
Some very equality / diversity aware and intelligent people have been getting themselves into trouble for years because they say, for example, that while a trans woman can be fully equivalent and equal to any other kind of woman in law and should be treated as such, they are not the same thing. The Olympic committee have probably put themselves in the same position - how will they reconcile equality with excluding a trans woman with too much testosterone, or a trans man with too little?
It will be the world's biggest ever can of worms. Or I could have missed the point as usual.
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