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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 2753655, member: 6927"] I'm going to take a step back from the painting and ponder. There seem to be two countervailing, and perhaps incompatible, societal forces at play here: 1. The established segregation of athletic competition by sex/gender. 2. The modern paradigm shift—not uniform, but certainly growing—from one of immutable, biologically determined "sex" to one of a less rigid and more multifaceted "gender." I don't have the estimates handy, but a considerable minority of people simply don't fit neatly, for a variety of reasons, into the traditional male/female gender binary. To say that modern society (among others) has been largely unwelcoming to such people would be an understatement. How to build a society that is less hostile and more inclusive for "nonbinary" people—e.g., by guaranteeing their right to full participation in all sorts of human endeavors, including athletics—while still preserving the strict binary segregation of sports is, to say the least, a fraught proposition. I don't claim to have the answers on how to reconcile these forces, but I do know that the way Caster Semenya was treated was downright shameful (to say nothing of the degrading "testing" process and sensationalized publicity she was subjected to). The IAAF stunted the career of an immensely talented runner who was on a clear trajectory to break the world record in the 800 meters. Ultimately, she was targeted because she was too fast and didn't look "feminine" enough. [/QUOTE]

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