Trompé Setsuled (setsuled) wrote,
Trompé Setsuled
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I Run As Fast As I Can Run but Jack Comes Tumbling After

A silver medallist in a women's race took a "gender test" and failed.

She's not a man and she's never had a sex change. She has "abnormal chromosomes." Abnormal enough for her to be stripped of her medal.

So, what? She took too much man-ness across the finish line? That's considered an unfair advantage? In the future, will sex be determined by footrace?
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