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by ahhhhnoooo 83 days ago
> It's not hard to understand how badly this would turn out to be if the same sort of unscrupulous regime could just abuse this loophole to seek the same benefit.

Surely this is something that can be addressed if it ever becomes a problem. Surely we don't need to write rules for scenarios that aren't causing issues...
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locknitpicker 82 days ago
> Surely this is something that can be addressed if it ever becomes a problem.

You're advocating to create pressure and incentives to commit this class of abuses, which have already been committed even at an industrial stage for decades, and your strategy is to ignore history and facts until the consequences of your actions catch up to you.

And all this in exchange for which tradeoff?

Even the fight against doping is far more proactive than what you are advocating.

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ahhhhnoooo 82 days ago
Trans athletes at the Olympics are causing disruptions at an industrial scale?

There's been exactly one trans woman in the Olympics, Laurel Hubbards, competing for New Zealand. She won zero medals.

I'm advocating for "there is zero documented evidence this is a problem, the IOC should use their time and energy solving actual problems like doping."

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dpd_dpd 82 days ago
All three medallists in the women's 800m at the 2016 Rio Olympics were male. This was highly controversial, as having three male athletes take gold, silver and bronze in what should have been a celebration of female athletic excellence wasn't exactly a desirable outcome.

Although the headline of the linked article focuses on males with a transgender identity, the purpose of the IOC's new policy is to exclude all male physiological advantage from the female category, including cases like the above.

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ahhhhnoooo 82 days ago
I'm aware, but those women aren't trans. They have disorders of sexual development, were assigned female at birth.

Laurel Hubbard is trans, was assigned male at birth, and competed under hormone therapy. (Which studies have shown reduces or eliminates the biological male advantage for trans women.)

We can discuss DSD AFAB athletes as well, but I was focused on trans athletes.

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