re: #44 Backwoods_Sleuth

OT, but here’s Alice’s LA Times op-ed:

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Interesting. On the one hand there’s the clear evidence in many sports and over decades of recordkeeping that men have a performance advantage over women, and thus we have separate categories for men and women in nearly all sports.

It makes perfect sense.

On the other hand it is clear that what constitutes a woman or a man is not an Either/Or thing, and that while, for example Dutee Chand may have an advantage in one area due to higher natural testosterone levels, other athletes have other advantages that are also natural. To be blunt, you don’t get to be a world class athlete without being naturally outside the norm. So to penalize Chand for a natural advantage while not penalizing others with their own natural advantages is unfair.

That also makes perfect sense.

So, what do you do? How do you determine what constitutes Male and Female for the purpose of sporting competition?