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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The ruling specifically applies to athletes with 46XY DSD, i.e. female athletes with XY (male) chromosomes. If she wasn't intersex, the ruling wouldn't apply to her and no one would be talking about this.[/quote]

More specifically it applies to female athletes competing in certain events in certain sports.

The decision was fair.

Not everyone gets to be involved in everything all the time just because they want too.  And it doesn't matter that its genetics. Genetics excludes people.  It's reality.

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She competed her whole life with no notion of being high testosterone while living, believing, and [b]presenting as a woman[/b].The fact that she can no longer compete because of a freak of nature is what is not fair.

We are wielding "science" as a cudgel and that is not fair. She cannot control who she is. Young female gymnasts who delay puberty and menstruation CAN, but THEY are allowed to compete.

But honestly. F@#$ the Olympics and any whiney athlete who is upset at this.[/quote]

Sorry but she presents as a man[/quote]

No, what you mean is, "I think she looks like a man."

But your opinion of her appearance is entirely irrelevant. Mine is, too.[/quote]

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