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Michael Novo

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Originally Posted by Carbonfiberboy

None of this is simple. An estimated 170 LGBTI athletes have competed in the Olympics. Gender is often not obvious even without modifications. See:
https://www.thenation.com/article/pe...bti-olympians/

Here's a good story which I remember reading about real time, back when my sport was skiing with a little cycling in the summer. This is another "it's not always obvious" story, the woman who skied like a man:
https://www.skimag.com/uncategorized...hamp-was-a-man.

Let's break that number down of "170 LGBTI athletes have competed".

1. The vast majority of that 170 will be outside of the T and I categories...meaning that L, G and B would be most common.
2. Even if we leave 70 of the original 170 in the T or I categories, now we take an already insignificant number and make it even smaller. How many athletes have competed in total in the summer and winter games? 400,000? More? So the rules need to be changed for 70 out of 400,000? We're talking about ONE TENTH OF ONE PERCENT.
3. The skier case is an outlier. It's one thing if we're talking about a statistically significant percentage but the reality is that one long story does not make for norms.

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