Originally Posted by
Doge
Un-drugged women born with XX chromosomes is naturally too high in testosterone. IAAF says athlete needs to take drugs to compete fairly.
The International Association of Athletics Federations consist of 17 countries agreement on how to make competition fair (my words). While generally running, Track&Field and not concerned with cycling, they deal with WADA too, so this is interesting as it relates to cycling doping and the basic think of how to make things fair. Growing up with extra T that is going to make a difference no matter how you got it.
This has happened more than once. Dutee Chand and current.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...evels-in-women
Wow. Isn't the statement
"The revised rules are not about cheating, no athlete with a [difference of sexual development] has cheated, they are about levelling the playing field to ensure fair and meaningful competition in the sport of athletics where success is determined by talent, dedication and hard work rather than other contributing factors," relegating a natural genetic difference to the category of "other contributing factors" ? If so shouldn't the same reasoning apply to other genetic advantages as well as T?
The science, understanding and measurement of physiology and performance in aerobic sports are only going to get better. Seems like a very slippery slope.