Comments on: Intersex advocates welcome UN resolution on discrimination in women’s sport /news/international-news-news/intersex-advocates-welcome-un-resolution-on-discrimination-in-womens-sport/179709 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Sun, 24 Mar 2019 23:18:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Dave /news/international-news-news/intersex-advocates-welcome-un-resolution-on-discrimination-in-womens-sport/179709#comment-614872 Sun, 24 Mar 2019 23:18:58 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=179709#comment-614872 I welcome this outcome. I think Caster Semenya is a great athlete and banning her for having a natural advantage would have been the same as banning Usain Bolt for having the natural advantage that he’s Usain Bolt.

That said, I think testosterone and related hormones may yet be found to play a bigger role than BMJ editorial mentioned in the last sentence states. I support the right of trans women to play competitive women’s sports BUT it would be evidence of an unfair non-natural advantage if the participation rate of trans women in these sports was significantly higher than the incidence of trans people in the community generally. The obvious solution is to tweak the hormone levels required for trans female athletes to levels where only the very best trans women will be competitive with cis players (who themselves are high performance athletes), and these levels need not necessarily equate to the levels found in cis women.

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