Le regole di test di genere mi avrebbero guadagnato una medaglia olimpica, dice l’ex atleta GB Lynsey Sharp
https://news.sky.com/story/gender-testing-rules-would-have-earned-me-an-olympic-medal-says-former-uk-athlete-lynsey-sharp-13433920
di sjw_7
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“I would have won if they’d segregated the women who were better than me.”
So she would have won _bronze_ if these three competitors _who were born female_ but with genetic advantages weren’t in the race? And she’s offended that people called her a sore loser for bringing it up?
Man, sounds like she’s a sore loser
So many misconceptions in this thread, Caster Semenya isn’t trans, she has an intersex condition. Her sex is assigned female at birth and she competes as a woman. But she also has a medical condition that gives her elevated testosterone. Astonishingly, she is barred from competing in the 400, 800m and 1,500m events, BUT NOT 100m, 200m, 5km, etc. because the relation between testosterone and performance (among females) is only statistically significant for 800m and 1,500m.
Also, [gender testing](https://www.nrk.no/sport/nedslaende-beskjed-rett-for-vm-i-friidrett_-kjonnstest-kan-vaere-brudd-pa-menneskerettighetene-1.17554507) is recently ruled illegal by Norway.
Mad you can ban women for having too much natural testosterone, but Michael Phelps is allowed to just demolish swimming moral for years.
On a side note, the women’s 800m is probably the track and field event where extra testosterone carries the biggest competitive advantage, given that it’s at that sweet point of needing both speed and stamina
It’s not a coincidence that it has the longest standing world record in athletics, set by Kratochvilova doped to the gills on steroids back in 1983. And the second longest-standing is the similar 400m, set by Marita Koch two years later from a country with a confirmed state sponsored doping regime.
It’s not like XXY and other chromosomal variations just popped into being overnight. Women will always have competed against individuals with higher testosterone levels. Do we test Billie Jean King or the Williams sisters? Nobody in cycling was complaining about Indurain’s freakish cardiovascular system, they just got on with it.
The whole thing is just a useful wedge the far right can use as part of their trans bashing campaign.
“Sorry, you’re not quite female enough for us,” is a hell of a message alongside, “sport is all inclusive.”
But then this was never about helping women, but punishing those who are other.
I’d be the world’s best golfer if most golfers were barred from competing