This week, Switzerland's Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that the Indian sprinter Dutee Chand may race as a woman in international competition.
This decision is significant because, just last year, Chand was denied by track and field's governing body (the International Association of Athletics Federations or IAAF) the right to compete against women because her natural levels of testosterone were considered too high for a female athlete.
As The New York Times reported Monday, Chand is now cleared for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro — if she qualifies. It's likely that this ruling also will serve as a legal precedent for women in sports beyond just track and field.
The court did grant the IAAF two years to provide further evidence in support of their so-called "hyperandrogenism regulation." Chand's victory, therefore, rests on a suspension, rather than an outright overturning, of the biologically based rule.
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2 comments:
This is all very simple. You can not change your gender. The idea that you can is an out right farce. You will always be a man or a women no matter how hard you try to be something else.
Question 1. Do you have a Y chromosome? If you do you are a man.
end of questions.
its a parent it's already been decided....Normal is out...you do realize this is all part of an agenda just more dangers from the rainbow
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