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[–] 26 points 2 years ago (12 children)

It's not the Olympic organizers' job to disqualify someone based on how immoral, criminal, of poor character or despicable a person is (on who's laws anyway?). This is a major failure on the country's olympic committee selecting these people to represent themselves to the world.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

    Yet they're more than happy to disqualify and otherwise exclude people based on their biology. Curious.. 🤔

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    On the one hand that's supposedly to do with competitive advantage. It makes sense to try to even the playing field, which should have nothing to do with objection on 'moral'grounds. I'd argue this is mostly a good thing given the iffiness of many groups' morals.

    Case in point, your exact examples, which brings me to the other hand. Banning trans athletes on 'fairness' grounds is bullshit. In most sports there's no known competitive advantage. Where there's an imbalance they tend to show disadvantage. The rare cases with an advantage for trans athletes tend to disappear the moment you correct for size/weight, which is not something we'd exclude cis athletes for. None of your examples should have happened. They do not hold water on fairness grounds, and any moralistic reasons behind it are reprehensible.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Obviously it's a murky subject on the topic of intersex and transgender athletes participating in the ladies' competition. However on the whole, the focus is on matters related to achieving a fair competition to a sport rather than someone's morality. The IOC, with consultation from a multitude of countries, dropped many of the testosterone and sex testing criteria for this year, where before the 2016 olympics, trans and intersex athletes were barred completely without genital surgery.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's almost like you would have a physical advantage by being born male. See no issues with transwomen competing with men though. Technically the mens divisions are the "unrestricted" entries.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's almost like that isn't even true and you're just a transphobe and misogynist.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Pretty interesting read, but far from conclusive. As they said in the study. 15-23 random people from each group gathered from social media isn't exactly what I would call bulletproof. Just by going through male puberty you would have a physical advantage by being taller.

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