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1 hour ago, John Wright said:

I enjoy the Guardian. But it’s daft sometimes.

GB is allegedly joint top of the medals table. ( No medals awarded yet - Friday at 19.15 BST )

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Not keen on alphabetical order then🤷‍♂️

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The gymnastics are amazing. The American team are solid, they’ve got legs like kangaroos! The tiny Chinese girl was flying between the asymmetrical bars, totally insane - love it!

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Interesting one this. It’s obvious that the Algerian has a manly powerful build therefor an advantage. What about darts? Female player has refused to play a transgender. But where’s the advantage ? Apart from birds can’t count backwards ( that was a joke by the way so calm down). 

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I think it’s more complicated than that. As  understand it she/he is not trans but has , well I don’t understand it’s medical in that she / he has an overload of male testosterone thus giving she/ he an advantage in terms of endurance and strength that is more male than female.

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Hard cases make bad law.

Sexually reproducing animals have basically two development pathways and only a tiny subset of animals (clown fish etc) are able to move from one pathway to the other.

In humans sexual development is almost entirely bi-modal with developmental abnormalities that do not follow one or the other of the development pathways numbered in the single digits per tens of thousands.

Testosterone is a dominant factor in driving the physical differences between male and female and it makes a huge difference:

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It is perfectly reasonable to say the particular genital characteristics of a person are not the deciding factor in trying to make sport fair between the sexes, but rather the amount of testosterone the body has been exposed to during pubity and as a competing adult.

These boxing matches are inherently unfair.

 

 

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