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barrance 5 hours ago

Headline is inaccurate.

Transgender athletes are not barred from women's events. Female athletes who identify as men, or otherwise do not identify as women, can still compete in this category, as they have been doing already.

What the IOC's new policy actually does is make male athletes ineligible for competition in the female category, with very few exceptions. These exceptions are for athletes who are technically male but have a disorder of sex development that confers no male advantage, e.g. CAIS.

lux-lux-lux 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Transgender women aren’t ’male athletes’

asterix_pano 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why not? Aren't you mixing gender and sex?

harveychess 5 hours ago | parent [-]

If you try to define athletic divisions by sex, you're going to have a hard time. The world's best athletes probably all have some unusual biology. About 1.7% of people are not completely biological male or female. I would expect that proportion to be higher for Olympic athletes. Excluding 1.7% or 2% or 10% of the world's best athletes from competing would not be fair.

zeven7 34 minutes ago | parent [-]

Anybody can compete in the unsexed category. It’s only the female sex category where someone can be barred. No one is barred from competing at the highest level.

barrance 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why do you believe that?