Just in time for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, the International Olympic Committee has taken on the issue of intersexed athletes. Their determination? That each case should be viewed individually and as a medical condition, not as an issue reagarding fairness or advantage in competition.
The ruling comes after controversy surrounding Caster Semenya of South Africa who won a gold medal at last summers World Athletics Championships as a woman then challenged by competitors who insisted she was a man baby!
I’m proud of the I.O.C. taking a measured and approriate response to the issue.
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Wow, somebody actually gets it? Bring on the haters.
This is exciting and great news! How about we use the words “gender variance” or the more grammatically correct “sex variance” instead of the creepy sounding “medical disoder?”
Fabulousness is not a disorder!
Yeah the choice of language was very awkward, but the ruling is so right on target and void of the kind of hyperbole and sensationalism that I would expect if this were say a governmental body making this ruling. Can you imagine the crazy rhetoric if this were a Congressional investigation? We’d have right wingers denouncing the athletes as cheats and abominations and gutless Dems who would say almost nothing and we would get a ruling that would likely be some meaningless drivel that prevents these athletes from competing so as not to upset the “American Family”.