Has the NCAA revoked Thomas’ “victories” and moved the actual girls up?
Here are my thoughts, from an earlier thread..reprinted here.
To me its a simple fairness issue, and it actually has nothing to do, fundamentally, with XX or XY status. It is all about exposure to the most powerful athletic performance drug and that is testosterone. Once exposed to a significant degree, especially at a young age, it is not possible to entirely return to where you were physically before such exposure.
The rule needs to be that any person, who for any reason, was ever exposed over a meaningful period of time, to a level of testosterone equivalent to the median level that males normally present should be barred from women’s sports. Regardless of whether they are genetically XX or XY.
This would eliminate XX from participating if they took T for any reason. It would also eliminate most XY since they were exposed from puberty.
There is no significant athletic advantage between XX and XY before puberty... but there is without a doubt a significant advantage for XY after puberty.
There is a genetic condition called complete androgen insensitivity syndrome and it effects both XX and XY. These people cannot be affected in any way by testosterone. These people are at a physical disadvantage to not only normal XY males but to XX females since the NORMAL female levels of T are still enough to influence physical abilities. These physically frail people who are totally untouched by the influence of androgen are proof positive that testosterone is a very effective athletic enhancer and that those so enhanced, to be fair, should only compete athletically against their peers whether those peers be XX or XY..
In other news... the International Eunuch Society announced that no one with genitals of either kind can compete at its annual Soprano competition.