KokoroAkechi posted...
The olympic committee doesn't sound like it's composed of scientists.
Their rules seem pretty based on science from the article (must be on the correct hormones for 2+ years--including having gonads removed two years prior to competition). Essentially they were finding that steroids were the only measurable competitive difference between genders. Change the steroids and you're good.
Westbrick posted...
Newsflash: it's a contest based around genetics. If they can discriminate against ugly people, why not against transgendered folk? The fact that she was apparently unclear about this fact makes it worse. People are seriously complaining about superficiality in a contest which revolves around superficiality.
Well...we probably would not be ok with them discriminating against, say, interracial people. Or discriminating against jews. These are also superficial things in a contest about genetics. And yet our common sense tells us that disqualifying someone based on these traits would be clearly offensive.
This is why most rules about discrimination have the idea of a "protected group", which means that anti-discrimination laws can't be applied to, say, discriminating against stupid people. Damn near every employer discriminates against stupid people.
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