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To: sphinx
If this man/woman is truly intersex, then he/she has internal gonads, not testes or ovaries per se.

And the gonads likely will need to be removed as they have a tendency to turn cancerous, as do undescended testes.

As for what's "fair" in this case I don't know.

Can't blame the person for what they were born with.

But the Olympic committee has to come up with some kind of guidelines as to how to handle a million in one case like this.

An intersex person who identifies as female, (and has female genitalia BTW) but has 3x the testosterone as a woman. And is at Olympic level talent compared with even the very best XX females in the world.

I truthfully don't know how to resolve this and be fair to the other athletes.

77 posted on 08/21/2016 2:42:45 PM PDT by boop (And then Hillary fell into a deep sleep for 11 months...)
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To: boop

No knows how to handle it, true. But supposedly Olympians with intersex/androwhateveritis/women with un-normal levels of testosterone supposedly occur much more frequently than in the general population of humans. In other words they might gravitate towards sport for obvious reasons, especially if they are from poor nations/areas.

So it’s not like this is an isolated incident, or a really rare thing I guess, at least in the context of sport.

Freegards


127 posted on 08/21/2016 9:09:51 PM PDT by Ransomed
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