Transgender track athlete makes history as controversy swirls around her

[moriah]

70. I've got mixed emotions.

I definitely want every FTM to have the right to compete in male events, but some might be disqualified for the very hormone shots they take for masculinity.

I also do NOT want any kind of rule that makes it harder on female athletes with androgen insensitivity to be able to compete despite having an XY genotype in female events, as while they may have slightly more of an advantage if the androgen insensitivity is only partial, they have identified as female their whole lives and wouldn't be allowed to compete in male events because they lack male genitals and have from birth.

Bodies that did get to develop in the presence of active, useful testosterone do on the average grow taller, stronger, and stockier, though.

If it were more common and accepted for testosterone blocking and estrogen therapy to begin before puberty, I'd say that being the requirement for competition as a female would work. Most test isn't really excreted in massive quantities until then. But it's not common.

I really don't know what is fair to all athletes.