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05-13-2018 #1
Transgender athletes face tougher Olympic rules
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/spo...c7545e1e3e1764
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/15/us/bo...nts/index.html
I see transgender athletes (specifically MTF) as a growing hotbed of debate.
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05-13-2018 #2
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Re: Transgender athletes face tougher Olympic rules
But is this about Gender, or the use of chemicals which in sport some claim may give a competitor an advantage? It does not just apply to those intersexed or transgendered sports-persons who want to participate in competitive games (the Boston Marathon can be run by anyone outside the speed merchants), but to everyone in professional sport that, on their own, through their trainers or through their governments, have cheated by taking chemicals to improve their performance. This has been going at least since the USSR doped its athletes, if not before; the use of chemicals has been rife in the Tour de France for decades as well as other sports, so the real question is why do people attach any importance to major sporting events where individual performance has probably been determined by drug use?
Then this:
A leading scientist at international athletics’ governing body has said he is in favour of a third category for intersex athletes and that it could happen within five years – although he admitted public opinion will have to shift first.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...caster-semenya
Ps your link to the article in the Australian is hidden behind a paywall, courtesy of soft porn publisher, proprietor of illegal hacking tabloids, and private advisor to the 'President' of the USA, Rupert Murdoch.
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05-14-2018 #3
Re: Transgender athletes face tougher Olympic rules
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05-14-2018 #6
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Re: Transgender athletes face tougher Olympic rules
Not a lot, unless that transgendered Basketball player starts taking testosterone to get back some of the masculine muscle power she lost when she became a woman -and why would she do that? It might not be true of all post-ops, but for Savannah Burton it has been:
"My mechanics of playing didn't change," she says of her agility and coordination. "But my muscle strength decreased significantly. I can't throw as hard."
https://www.shape.com/lifestyle/mind...ts-performance
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05-14-2018 #7
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Re: Transgender athletes face tougher Olympic rules
The new rules appear to have been motivated in particular by Caster Semenya, a South African who has been dominating women's middle-distance running but has faced ongoing controversy about her gender status. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caster...ne_rule_change
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05-14-2018 #8
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Re: Transgender athletes face tougher Olympic rules
This article has a pretty good discussion of the changes. http://www.newnownext.com/the-olympi...mpete/04/2018/
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05-14-2018 #9
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Re: Transgender athletes face tougher Olympic rules
Joe Rogan has talked extensively about this issue in general and particularly in relation to MMA. You can check out his podcasts.
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05-14-2018 #10
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