[patagurbon]

SRY testing was done at the 1996 games and for a while before that. 8 cisgender women tested positive at that games. Far more than the number of transgender athletes who have ever participated. This resulted in genetic testing being changed from all women to on-suspicion.

The bottom line is these tests will catch dozens of people who are phenotypically women, who can even give birth. Why should men be allowed to compete as genetic freaks but not women?

[badc0ffee]

From what I've read, these women all had CAIS or similar, and testosterone had no effect on their bodies. Thankfully the new IOC guidelines have an exception for that and would let them compete with women.

But I want to point out that XY+CAIS individuals cannot conceive or carry a child. They have no ovaries and no uterus.

> Why should men be allowed to compete as genetic freaks but not women?

They are, if they are female or have CAIS. Caster Semenya, for example, does not meet that standard. Caster was assigned female at birth and raised as a girl, but is not biologically female, rather a male with a DSD (5-ARD) who has testes and fully male levels of testosterone and musculature.

[ck2]

there are many types of DSD (aka intersex)

one type most definitely would "fail" SRY test

yet they can give birth using donated egg, IVF, etc.

nature makes many variations, it's not exact, it's not binary

there is common and less common and that's why it's messy

A different approach would have been to accommodate the less common

But they purposely decided not to do that because that's the opposite of their goals