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Or you forget about the mental gymnastics and just don't let men compete with women. Problem solved.

That doesn't solve the problem at the Olympics. The Algerian boxer was born with female parts and raised as a woman. But he/she has XY chromosomes. (Probably those estrogenic chemicals in the environment Alex Jones goes on about.) So if you define "woman" as XX chromosomes, then the parents in Algeria legit did not "know what a woman is". If you define "woman" as "female parts", then he/she is a woman.

By low tech standards, she is a woman. It requires some high tech DNS analysis to see that he is genetically a male - but is dealing with developmental problems.

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Vitor Pamplona 1y ago

Agree. This is precisely why we should get out of the clusterfuck of opinions to define what's a man and what's a woman and just use the underlying traits that are most important for each sport and build fairer categories from the ground up. It's a long shot, but it's worth considering.

Stackerman 1y ago

Ok, I was not aware that he or she is actually a hermaphrodite and not a man pretending to be a woman. This is obviously a special case but in my opinion here the easy and clear indicator should have been the gene test. You would assume with all the money they spend on the olympics they should be able to afford that. 😉