Man-Woman Rights (Olympics)

[Spurtacular]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/erik-brady/2018/05/08/track-and-field-olympics-iaaf-ruling-caster-semenya/588443002/

[Chris]

Yup, Olympics got hit by the SJW bus. It will erode competition.

[DMC]

"Testosterone helps build muscle, endurance and speed. It is one of the reasons that men and women compete separately in most sports. But science simply can’t say with precision how much advantage female athletes with high levels of testosterone have. And yet the IAAF would have these athletes take medication to alter what their bodies produce naturally."

Got to here, stopped reading.

There's a huge flaw in reasoning, that because science cannot tell precisely how much of an advantage high testosterone provides, it doesn't provide one.

[Sheed's White Spot]

"Testosterone helps build muscle, endurance and speed. It is one of the reasons that men and women compete separately in most sports. But science simply can’t say with precision how much advantage female athletes with high levels of testosterone have. And yet the IAAF would have these athletes take medication to alter what their bodies produce naturally."

Got to here, stopped reading.

There's a huge flaw in reasoning, that because science cannot tell precisely how much of an advantage high testosterone provides, it doesn't provide one.

I'll admit this is more of a gray area than the nonsense of letting "trans" males compete as females. Article's blatant advocating aside: she is still a woman, right? Her testosterone is supposedly produced naturally, right? She is still genetically a female, right? It is a conundrum, maybe, in that is it an identifiable genetic fluke that is giving her an advantage that 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 9999999999999999999999999999999999999 percent of women do not receive? Is the Olympic solution to neutralize the problem really nonsense? This journalist and the runner seem ever so ready to write it off. They seem way to eager to let this "woman" benefit from an unfair advantage. That's where I start to become very skeptical. As a consumer / human I don't see the redeeming value of watching a "woman" with 10X (or whatever number it is) testosterone beating a twiggy Chinese broad into submission.