I read the IOC's justification for this ban, and it is appalling. Basically: "Cis men have a significant advantage over cis women, so we are banning trans women and any intersex person in the blast radius." They seem to intentionally ignore the substantial research on actual trans women athletes, which do not show an advantage.

Also: this is all upside down. Trans women are women - women's sport should accommodate all women, including intersex women and trans women. I am left handed, and this would give me a very significant advantage in sports like boxing. There are so many ways in which women's bodies are diverse, why do they keep picking on this particular one - flying in the face of all evidence?

I've said this before: When an intersex child is born and the female sex is chosen for them, the doctors and parents lie to the child, keep secrets from them, do surgeries on them to make them conform, put them on hormones to make them fit in, teach them shame for all the ways they fail to conform - but if they win a race, THEY ARE NOT A WOMAN!!!!!!!

https://xtramagazine.com/culture/olympics-policy-trans-women-ban-281152

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