• FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee
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    13 天前

    Imagine putting in the work to qualify for the Olympics only to find out you’re not a “real” woman by some arbitrary definitions. Michael Phelps has physical characteristics that gave him an edge in his particular sport, but people only tried to talk about his weed use as a disqualifying factor

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      13 天前

      That’s definitely going to ruin people’s athletic careers, but at least this arbitrary definition has some merit in athletics. It’s important to say that getting disqualified this way doesn’t make someone a less “real” woman. Women can get disqualified from events this way. That’s why I’d rename them to the “open” and “two X chromosomes” contests.

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      11 天前

      That man has too many amino strings in his DNA that resembles fish DNA.

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