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<blockquote data-quote="Bill" data-source="post: 942683" data-attributes="member: 79436"><p>If hyperandrogenous is neither a man nor a woman, I don't see how such a person is eligible for a mens' or a womans' event.</p><p></p><p>It's all very well someone saying that they identify as a woman, but by definition she is not a woman based on the above hypothesis. If someone who is hyperandrogenous can identify as a woman and thereby enter an event for women, would men not be discriminated against if they identified as women but were denied entry into womens' events ? </p><p></p><p>I don't see how self identification is relevant, and I don't see how someone who by definition is not a woman can be allowed to compete in an event for women.</p><p></p><p>Nevertheless a compromise has been reached whereby someone who identifies as a woman can be allowed to compete in womens' events, if she elects to remove the advantage which she has by not being by definition a woman. If she refuses to lower her testosterone, it suggests to me that she is acknowledging that she isn't the best runner in the race but the runner with the most testosterone. That defeats the point of the competition in my view.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bill, post: 942683, member: 79436"] If hyperandrogenous is neither a man nor a woman, I don't see how such a person is eligible for a mens' or a womans' event. It's all very well someone saying that they identify as a woman, but by definition she is not a woman based on the above hypothesis. If someone who is hyperandrogenous can identify as a woman and thereby enter an event for women, would men not be discriminated against if they identified as women but were denied entry into womens' events ? I don't see how self identification is relevant, and I don't see how someone who by definition is not a woman can be allowed to compete in an event for women. Nevertheless a compromise has been reached whereby someone who identifies as a woman can be allowed to compete in womens' events, if she elects to remove the advantage which she has by not being by definition a woman. If she refuses to lower her testosterone, it suggests to me that she is acknowledging that she isn't the best runner in the race but the runner with the most testosterone. That defeats the point of the competition in my view. [/QUOTE]
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