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Caster Semenya isn't the only cis-female athlete to be banned because their natural testosterone levels are too high. (I'm sure it's just a coincidence that they've all been black. :unsure:)

And it wasn't that long ago that (white) female athletes were complaining that black women shouldn't be allowed to compete because they weren't feminine enough.

Which brings us back to Ms. Semenya - I've seen people comment that the reason the IOC decided to pick on her was because she's not exactly attractive. And she's gay (a butch dyke if you prefer).
 
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The language of science is mathematics, right?

What objective scientific quantifiable standard should the IOC apply here?
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There seems to be a double-standard here.
- It's asserted that they're beyond normal range:
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- Yet we simultaneously assert they should compete as a woman.

A third category might seem to make sense, BUT !
there probably are not enough such 3rd category competitors to complete a contest.

S O !
We've defined the problem. What's the solution?

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Definition of DOUBLE STANDARD

a set of principles that applies differently and usually more rigorously to one group of people or circumstances than to another; especially : a code of morals that applies more severe standards of sexual behavior to women than to men; bimetallism… See the full definition
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Two questions:

1 - does this mean Vance can't wear his eyeliner anymore?
2 - does this mean ciswomen can no longer wear trousers and have to wear dresses full time?

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Finland's Supreme Court has convicted a sitting MP for calling homosexuality a "developmental disorder." It took seven years — and three trials.

Päivi Räsänen, 66, a Christian Democrat MP and qualified medical doctor who has served in the Finnish Parliament since 1995, was convicted on 26 March after Finland's Supreme Court ruled that her claim it was "scientifically proven" that homosexuality is a developmental disorder met the legal threshold for incitement against a minority group.

The statements appeared in a Lutheran pamphlet titled "Male and Female He Created Them: Homosexual Relationships Challenge the Christian Understanding of Humanity," originally published in 2004 and later republished on her website in 2020.

The court voted 3-2 in favour of conviction. Räsänen had previously been unanimously acquitted by both the Helsinki District Court in 2022 and the Court of Appeal in 2023 — before Finland's Attorney General took the case to the Supreme Court for a guiding ruling.

She was fined €1,800 (£1,540). The court noted that while the statements met the threshold for incitement, they did not contain threats or calls to violence, and were therefore not at the most serious end of the scale. The court also ordered the unlawful passages to be removed from publication.

The US-based Alliance Defending Freedom International, which represented Räsänen throughout the case, called the conviction "an outrageous example of state censorship" — and has used the case as part of a wider global campaign warning of what it calls "creeping censorship" in Europe. The group successfully overturned Roe v. Wade in the United States.

Räsänen said the ruling was "a shock" and confirmed she is taking legal advice on a possible appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. "This is not about my free speech alone, but that of every person in Finland," she said.
 
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