Gender testing rules would have earned me an Olympic medal, says former GB athlete Lynsey Sharp

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1. It’s one thing to have a man compete in a race against women. But having a black man compete in the sprint race is just taking the piss lmao

2. Sore loser 

3. So is it all genetic abberations that will be getting banned from the Olympics for having an unfair advantage, or just this one very specific one that is nicely lined up with the current political topic of much pearl clutching?

   After all we should be consistent with our logic if we are going to do it

4. 6th place sore loser shows how much of a sore loser she isn’t by complaining to the national press about something that happened last year and was resolved in her favour.

5. It’s interesting how it’s ok to be a genetic freak of nature and compete in the men’s category but not in the woman’s.

   Phelps doesn’t produce as much lactic acid as he should, what an amazing athlete and talent.

   Caster, produces more testosterone and reacts stronger to it than other women. That’s cheating and unfair.

   Both athletes had genetic quirks that help them . I think the actual issue is that caster doesn’t look hot.

6. it’s been 10 years and she’s still complaining about a handful of women with DSD. I thought the obsession was with trans ppl, now we’re pivoting to specifically intersex women?

   This is just picking and choosing individuals in banning genetic advantages in sports, we should tell Michael Phelps to kiss his medals goodbye. Usain bolt isn’t safe either with his pesky genetic advantages

7. Caster Symenya has XY chromosomes. Male.

8. I mean, if you scroll down to the image of 8 runners running the race, it’s quite telling.

9. Time to do away with gender based division in sports I reckon. Just let them all compete and see who’s actually best at what.

10. Here’s a hopefully unbiased [BBC article](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/67367157) about Caster Semenya. She reportedly has 46 XY 5-ARD which means that her chromosomes are XY. Generally speaking, people with this DSD are born with female-looking genitalia, but develop male secondary sexual characteristics at puberty, such as a deep voice and greatly increased muscle mass due to testosterone. This is where the problem arises when they are competing with XX women who haven’t undergone the same puberty. So here, it’s not a case of Lynsey Sharp just competing against faster/stronger XX women.

11. All transgender athletes can compete in the men’s. Just not the women’s. I believe that is completely fair and that’s how it should be. If you want to compete just compete with the men. You don’t have to take estrogen. What’s more important to you? Any added hormones should be against the rules when it comes to the Olympics imo.

12. Every athlete who lost out should be awarded their medal and compensated for the soul crushing injustice.

13. She lost to intersex people.Caster Semeya has male testicles inside of her body, that are producing male levels of testosterone. Its a bit like Ronnie Coleman being allowed to compete in the natural body building class but completely ignoring his steroid use.

14. “if the better person weren’t allowed to compete, I would’ve won”

15. I’m not ensure sure how she would have gotten a medal at the Olympics? She came 6th in the final. Had she been 4th I’d have understood her complaints but to drag this up nearly a decade later is just incredibly unfair on Caster.

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