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Dutee Chand's Victory is Not A Victory For Fairness

... the decision is being hailed as a human rights victory, an activist victory, a victory for female athletes who have struggled since the beginning of women’s sports to be judged by performance rather than appearance. It’s being hailed as an expansion of the definition of being female.

Chand’s victory may be all those things, but it comes at the expense of fairness on the track
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Freedom to compete without suppressing testosterone, or even knowing testosterone levels, may encourage more of the very small number of hyperandrogenic women in the general population to jump into the very small pool of Olympic or World Championship athletes

The CAS decision to erase any defining line, aside from exogenous doping, from women’s sports will certainly be a human rights victory for hyperandrogenic women, but not so much to the masses of women who don’t have that testosterone advantage. Whether it’s Semenya blasting a 1:54, or someone else rocketing to a 10-low 100 meter, it’s going to feel unfair, discouragingly unfair. And that’s the whole idea behind women’s sports.

“For now, they’ll have to let people who identify as females compete as females, and hope that the outlier doesn’t shatter the illusion of equality,” Tucker said.