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Since some athletic governing bodies have already gone down the rabbit hole of telling women athletes that they need to have body parts removed ("in order to no

Since some athletic governing bodies have already gone down the rabbit hole of telling women athletes that they need to have body parts removed ("in order to normalize testosterone levels"), I suspect that if your genes are too good, you'll be suspected of having modified them, and therefore banned.

dogma1138 10y ago
That's a completely different case with a lot of unclear things. The Olympic commission did run genetic and sex tests on her and the results were not published. It looks like there is some genetic anomalies however as the results are secret and she will not publish them on her own it's hard to know if she is indeed intersex or not. Males and Female are intentionally segregated in sports because it would be utterly unfair for them to compete on against each other. Check virtually every sport and you'll see that the slowest scores in almost every event for men beat the record for the respective women's event. You simply can't allow cross gender whether it's transgender or intersex individuals to choose under which gender they would compete, oddly enough it would be harmful to women if intersex and transgender athletes could compete in women's events. I'm all up for having a 3rd or even 4th gender events set up if there is a sufficiently large pool of athletes to compete in these events.
- fapjacks 10y ago
  No, it's not "a completely different case". It's going to come down to (surprise!) genetic testing. My comment specifically addresses a possible scenario when the Olympic commission can't identify whether or not someone has had outside assistance in their performance. Just like they did here, I'm guessing they'll err on the side of caution and forbid that person from competing.