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Originally posted by Cerek the Barbaric:
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Originally posted by True_Moose:
The IOC is kind of slow. I remember for awhile, they would ban women and men athletes for having different chromosomes (something like 1 in 1000 women are born naturally with XXY.) They're not a brilliant organisation.
I don't have a moral problem with them competing, but I may have a fair play issue. I am in an intense hockey training program right now, and I can tell you that I have a natural physical advantage, in terms of strength, over the girls in my group. Don't get me wrong, they can overcome it with more work, but I have more of a natural gift. I wonder if it's really fair if a man gets really bulked up, to the point he can compete in the Olympics, and then has a sex change. What about the natural women, who are inherently put at a disadvantage?
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According to the article, the two years of required hormone therapy after the operation is supposed to eliminate - or at least minimize - the natural physical advantage men have over women.
As I said, my surprise was that the hormone therapy did not disqualify the athletes automatically. But I guess hormone therapy is not the same as "perfomance enhancement". [/QUOTE]Well, maybe i can try to explain this, allthough i'm not a transexual, i am in sports and play at a high enough level that i can get checked for 'performance enhancing' drugs.
These hormones are natural hormones. Ie the human body makes these too. A women has more oestrogen then a man and a man has more testosterone then a women. If they give the transexual a hormone treatment, he or she (as the case may be) has the normal amount of hormones in the body.
Besides it's not as if a man is taking these to enhance it's performance among men.
Ugh, hope this made sense. I sometimes can't make heads or tails from this anti doping stuff.
[ 05-19-2004, 03:46 AM: Message edited by: the new JR Jansen ]