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This was expected due to the debate around trans women affecting intersex women. This is a return to norms, ostracizing intersex women and shaming them as “not real women”.
Oh ffs, stop telling me about their sexy bits. Just let everyone do their thing, let us watch it, and let some awesome data visualization nerds pull crazy stats from the results.
You want to bring science into it, then do it, perverts. 'Who jumped over the highest stick' is just caveman logic for who generated the most acceleration in a vertical vector per kilogram (or awesome nerds, correct my caveman misunderstanding). Crunch the numbers, dammit, let's see who really gets the gold!
The devil is in the details. Much like with drug testing, its not easy and there are always people trying to beat the testing system.
The solution is not "what the athlete/country says". They are testing for sex, not gender.
But you also can't let the test be too simplistic, otherwise some people might be unfairly excluded.
But given the complexity of the biology and medical testing in general, it is unreasonable to expect that no-one will be unfairly excluded, or unfairly included.
The question is, do you want to bias it to let people though unfairly, or exclude people unfairly?
Ultimately they need to do what is most fair to most compeditors and credible for the sport.
Do they have to have respect in the first place before they can disrespect?
So how are they going to verify an individuals sex?
It literally says right there in the text of the post.
Genetic testing.
Yes, but what specifically are they testing for? Y chromosome, 2 XX chromosomes, or SRY gene. Potentially different results for each option
Afaik the Olympics test hormone levels and use that. Edit: Oh wow they started doing genetic testing again.
Genes are a not reliable test because among the athletic population, 7 per 1,000 women have male genes.
There's a fantastic article written by Dr Jordan Feigenbaum here which covers the history of methods used and cites scientific studies on the topic.