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Transgender women athletes banned from Olympics by new IOC policy (www.tsn.ca)

submitted 2 days ago by CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca to c/sports@beehaw.org

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[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 4 points 2 days ago

What's funny about this is I actually know someone born biologically female who naturally produced more testosterone than estrogen. Heck, PCOS is a hormonal disorder that affects an estimated 10-13% of women.

It's not like chromosomes matter at all, and these kinds of competitions will always bias favorably towards the people who were more fortunate with the body they were given at birth. Pretending like one person's circumstances just don't count because you don't like them, especially (but not exclusively) for the athlete with DSD, invalidates the competition entirely.