About the only thing you can tell them is that when it comes to competitive world class competition, the athletes beside drug testing are given a gender test on most occasions.
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No longer true regarding transgender “therapies”. Trannies male to female regularly and legally compete in the olympics now
You are correct concerning the Olympics lately as there were no regulations in place at the Olympic Games Rio and no regulations in place at the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang as they are still awaiting the resolution of the Caster Semenya case. They have no idea what to do.
Semenya’s intersex condition causes her to produce more testosterone (hyperandrogenism) than most women, prompting questions about whether she had an unfair biological advantage. Bad part is that this is a legitimate condition, which does throw a question on the determination based upon a hormonal problem until they are tested. And even then, how do you determine difference?
But the use of hormonal testing is still up in the air for the OIC to restart until they can determine a test that is consistent with all possible competitors. The bad part for me is that the ability to self-identify is clearly a choice for kids at this level and not a medical determination. So the only way to keep it within the intent of the determination is to have the kids that identify as female be tested to no longer prove race equality but to determine if it is medical or choice. If medical, it can’t be helped. If choice, it can. But that will open up another can of worms concerning forced testing. Do all competitors at any level have to be tested? In high school, many states test for PEDs. And they are discovering a far larger use than they estimated before thanks to the media and their introduction of “star” athletes getting caught cheating while they make a gazillion dollars. And God help them if a state athletics board make a decision to try to control the problem without precedence of higher competition.
Testosterone belongs to a class of male hormones called androgens, which are sometimes called steroids or anabolic steroids. One way may be to determine an abundance of steroids to disqualify a competitor. But the levels of estrogen and androgen would have to be determined as to where a competitor can compete and the National Federation of High Schools and NCAA don’t want the kick back, I’m sure. Taking a stand would be suicide.
And as for the IOC, why did they pull any discretionary testing out of the loop prior to Caster Semenya running if they didn’t know it was going to be a problem for them so they tried to act innocent? Caught with their hands in the cookie jar. But you won’t hear that on the 11 o’clock news.
rwood