They also have male levels (perhaps less, perhaps more) of testosterone, from my understanding. I thought doping was prohibited at the Olympics. How is this not doping?
Your statement about XY is provocative. Nature, it seems, is far more complex. In looking this up, I saw that there is a concept called “mosaicism”. An organism’s DNA may not be all the same. Different test sites can give different results.
There are also some X-only “women”, classified as such because no chromosome exists to say otherwise. This along with varied levels of degradation of the Y chromosome.
The upshot, to me, is that life is diverse and resilient. A species is a species, however, because the vast majority are not so diverse that they cannot reproduce. The Olympics (and sports in general) always has been the celebration of an ideal. Part of that ideal should be conformity to the species. Otherwise, what is the point?
there are some situations that get a lot more complicated . For example, having a Y and a uterus.
But in the case of XY 5-ARD. It’s a male.
Caster’s CAS case indicated there was discrimination but it had to take place.
IOC has bent over not to show discrimination so that they don’t do testing.