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Athletics governing body to require DNA tests for women’s sports (www.aljazeera.com)
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World Athletics chief say rules will uphold the integrity of women’s sport amid debate over inclusion of trans athletes.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The Olympics have nothing to do with the original Olympics anymore, do they? They have skateboarding ffs. But trans is too far.

Actually, now I'm curious how they will handle cases of people with more than 2 chromosomes.

And, who runs these organisations? Are they under US influence?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Which original Olympics? In nude? With OG disciplines?

To be honest, the classic disciplines are boring.
I liked skateboarding, breaking (breakdance).

Maybe we should be more unisex, add more shooting, chess, card games, e-sport, Formula E, etc.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

add more shooting, chess, card games, e-sport, Formula E, etc.

I know it wouldn't be unheard of (art used to be a category) but I'd hate this so much because to me, the Olympics are a celebration of physical excellence.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Sebastian Coe, the president of World Athletics, said on Wednesday that track and field’s governing body had agreed to introduce the testing to keep the “absolute focus on the integrity of competition”.

That's the point I was addressing. The Olympics have change a lot. If they want to talk about integrity, they've already lost.

Maybe we should be more unisex, add more shooting, chess, card games, e-sport, Formula E, etc.

This is why I don't watch the Olympics anymore. They are a parody of the original.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Actually, now I'm curious how they will handle cases of people with more than 2 chromosomes.

Me too. Actually, this is explicitly called out in the article,

World Athletics’s testing requirements would also affect small numbers of competitors who were born with atypical sex chromosomes.

But they don't say what would happen. The easy ones: presumably, XYY is treated the same as XY and XO is treated like XX. But how would XXY be handled? Or cases where we have genetic chimerism - e.g. some cells are XY and some are XO or XX. (One way this happens is if fraternal twins of different sex are in the womb, and then one absorbs the other.)

Intersexed folks at best seem to be an afterthought in this proposal.

If the tests are sensitive enough, someone with XY gonadal dysgenesis might be counted as XX as well, though I'm skeptical on this point. Actually, this is exactly why such tests are bad - someone who presents as female in virtually every public way, and would be seen as female in terms of sex under even many forms of medical examinations, could be treated as male under these rules and forced to compete against men.

It's the exact opposite of what the anti-trans folks say that they want to accomplish - protecting women from male athletes.