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In perhaps the biggest setback yet suffered by the transgenderist juggernaut, the International Swimming Federation has sunk the dreams of Olympic gold of Will “Lia” Thomas, the also-ran male swimmer who declared himself a woman and won an NCAA championship. In a shocking spasm of sanity, the ruling body declared that ex-men who had gone through male puberty (from age 12 onward) are ineligible to enter women’s events because of the permanent advantages in size and strength they have gained.

It’s hard to lose when you have as much of an ideological tailwind at your back as Thomas has had, but his compulsion to crush his enemies and see them driven before him—and to hear the lamentation of the women he beat—made him a remarkably unsympathetic standard-bearer.

Here are my thoughts, from an earlier thread..reprinted here.
To me its a simple fairness issue, and it actually has nothing to do, fundamentally, with XX or XY status. It is all about exposure to the most powerful athletic performance drug and that is testosterone. Once exposed to a significant degree, especially at a young age, it is not possible to entirely return to where you were physically before such exposure.

The rule needs to be that any person, who for any reason, was ever exposed over a meaningful period of time, to a level of testosterone equivalent to the median level that males normally present should be barred from women’s sports. Regardless of whether they are genetically XX or XY.

This would eliminate XX from participating if they took T for any reason. It would also eliminate most XY since they were exposed from puberty.

There is no significant athletic advantage between XX and XY before puberty... but there is without a doubt a significant advantage for XY after puberty.

There is a genetic condition called complete androgen insensitivity syndrome and it effects both XX and XY. These people cannot be affected in any way by testosterone. These people are at a physical disadvantage to not only normal XY males but to XX females since the NORMAL female levels of T are still enough to influence physical abilities. These physically frail people who are totally untouched by the influence of androgen are proof positive that testosterone is a very effective athletic enhancer and that those so enhanced, to be fair, should only compete athletically against their peers whether those peers be XX or XY..

“To me its a simple fairness issue, and it actually has nothing to do, fundamentally, with XX or XY status.”

Fairness is not always the problem with things. I believe it has to do with the approach and political practices of the ruling faction at the time. And this is not new as it has been done for yeas.

Example, in 1976, Princess Anne made history by becoming the first British royal to compete at the Olympics in three-day eventing, where she rode the Queen’s horse, Goodwill in equestrian. This Olympics was in Canada which is still a strong supporter of England, possibly even more at that time. Many of her family members flew to the Games in the Canadian city of Montreal to support her.

However, in order to compete at the Olympics, Anne was reportedly excused from a test that all female athletes at the time had to take - a gender test. But the Canadian officials refused to do it. They would not gender test a British royal to determine if she was indeed a princess. And she was allowed to compete. So much for every female athlete being tested. So since it is selective, does it really mean anything if it isn’t swept under the rug or how it is presented by the media?

But there is worse than the sex testing problems in the past. The Russian block countries used to impregnate their athletes are certain times so the female body could reach its maximum capacity, as it does during pregnancy, then abort the child right before the events. It’s called abortion doping.

The first known was in 1968. Doctors had discovered that pregnant women could gain an advantage in muscle power, suppleness and lung capacity, because they produced more red blood cells. So all the gymnasts on the Russian gymnastic team, two of whom were 15 at the time, were forced to become pregnant before the Olympics: if they did not have a husband or boyfriend, they were made to have sex with a male coach. Anyone who refused was thrown off the team. After 10 weeks of pregnancy every gymnast had an abortion. They won the team gold medal by a fraction of a point, with Czechoslovakia second.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/nov/15/sports-cheats-greed-politics-athletics-iaaf

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