[drankl]

If you compare the female and male world records for pretty much any sport, you'll very clearly see the effect of SRY and other male-making genes.

The rationale for the female category is to remove this male advantage from competition. Allowing a subset of males who have the advantage of their sex to compete against female athletes, just because these males call themselves women, undermines the whole point of women's sport.

This is why we need such testing as described in the article. It's no different in principle to, for example, weigh-ins in boxing that enable fair competition in each weight category.

[dang]

Your account has been using HN primarily for ideological battle, which is not allowed here, regardless of what you're battling for or against (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

This is a line at which we ban accounts (https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...), so please stop doing this.

Also, please don't create accounts to do this with. It's not what the site is for, and destroys what it is for.

[drankl]

I'm just commenting on a topic I'm interested in, like the person I replied to did.

[Llamamoe]

The overwhelming majority of that advantage comes from sex hormones, not the gene itself. Depending on discipline, most or all of the advantage goes away within several years on HRT.

Take that and then consider that this goes even harder for people whose bodies never masculinized due to androgen insensitivity or whatever. Maybe it still carries some advantage, but... so what? So does pretty much every single gene variant top athletes have and nobody is trying to single those out.