▲ | codocod a year ago | |
The comment this subthread branched from was discussing the differences in athletic ability. From the intersection of developmental biology and sports science research we know how male physical advantage in competition arises, and which set of known "intersex" (DSD) conditions confer this. For example, 5-alpha reductase 2 deficiency does. Swyer syndrome does not. World Athletics' policy document Eligibility Regulations for the Female Classification does a good job of implementing this research into a workable policy: https://worldathletics.org/download/download?filename=2ffb8b... Rather than trying to label all edge cases "female" or "male", this pragmatic approach optimizes for fairness in competition instead. |