We’re talking about different things. The IOC goes by the gender printed on the passport. They don’t get involved in the politics otherwise
A separate issue, that is coming up in the reporting, is the athlete has tested as having XY chromosomes. That raises an interesting debate about sexualized competition.
Nothing, has refuted the XY chromosome test. But, it doesn’t matter, the discussion should be around the IOC and sexualized competition. Should it exist? If it should exist, what does it mean? Who’s going to define it?
If the iOC leaves it up to every country’s passports, that’s an interesting take, 190 something countries are going to have different criteria. It will be fun to see how it pans out
We’re talking about different things. The IOC goes by the gender printed on the passport. They don’t get involved in the politics otherwise
A separate issue, that is coming up in the reporting, is the athlete has tested as having XY chromosomes. That raises an interesting debate about sexualized competition.
Nothing, has refuted the XY chromosome test. But, it doesn’t matter, the discussion should be around the IOC and sexualized competition. Should it exist? If it should exist, what does it mean? Who’s going to define it?
If the iOC leaves it up to every country’s passports, that’s an interesting take, 190 something countries are going to have different criteria. It will be fun to see how it pans out