Or you forget about the mental gymnastics and just don't let men compete with women. Problem solved.
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That doesn't solve the problem at the Olympics. The Algerian boxer was born with female parts and raised as a woman. But he/she has XY chromosomes. (Probably those estrogenic chemicals in the environment Alex Jones goes on about.) So if you define "woman" as XX chromosomes, then the parents in Algeria legit did not "know what a woman is". If you define "woman" as "female parts", then he/she is a woman.
By low tech standards, she is a woman. It requires some high tech DNS analysis to see that he is genetically a male - but is dealing with developmental problems.
Agree. This is precisely why we should get out of the clusterfuck of opinions to define what's a man and what's a woman and just use the underlying traits that are most important for each sport and build fairer categories from the ground up. It's a long shot, but it's worth considering.