Well, the IOC is considering a trans-gender category in the Olympics, after concerns that some male athletes have actually been competing as women. This category would only be open to transexuals that have undergone a sex-change operation and they, obviously, must compete under their new gender. What do you guys think? Fair? Will this put female athletes at a major disadvantage? Is this sexually discriminatory?
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What's bred in the bone will not out of the flesh.
Really, it should be a non-issue. Genetically, transgendered people still bear the chromosomes of their original "state". Regardless of the operation, a post-op MTF TG is still geneticly a man, and vice-versa. Blood test all athletes prior to the games, and if it has a Y chromosome, it competes as a man. Done and done.
Puh-leeeease. East German men have been competing as women in every one of the Olympic sports since the Cold War. Have you ever seen pictures of the "women" swimmers? The cod in their swim suits is bigger than my prodigious monster-- and that's saying alot! When Greta von Whitesupremacy got up on the podium you could clearly see a five o'clock shadow and an Adam's apple, not to mention the deep gravelly voice she had.
The IOC is just finally getting around to officially recognising this?
Totem
The IOC is just finally getting around to officially recognising this?
Totem
Totem wrote:
The IOC is just finally getting around to officially recognising this?
Well, according to the article I read it has been recognized before by the IOC, in terms of gender testing for athletes, but this practice was phased out before the Sydney Olympics because of issues of "equality and human rights". On an interestring side note, the official male and female mascots of the Olympics in Athens both wear dresses. Are they up to something?
What's bred in the bone will not out of the flesh.
Dos this mean Thundra can no longer compete as a woman?
The Glorious Atomicflea wrote:
Dos this mean Thundra can no longer compete as a woman?
I suppose it does. It's too bad really, no one could do a full double back like she could.
/mourn Thundra's leotard
What's bred in the bone will not out of the flesh.
i'm moving to a house in the hills. tell me when the game of "guess who/what I am" is over.
ahhh but can the hermaphrodites play ?
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