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There isn’t a single trans or intersex woman dominating her sport. There isn’t a single trans or intersex woman dominating her sport. Since the IOC has created a rule for trans athletes to compete in 2003, over 81,000 people have become Olympians. Out of those 81,000 Olympians a total of 2 have been trans women & one came dead last the other came 37th out of 42. Even Caster who is the most famous, & most successful, intersex woman athlete doesn’t “dominate” her sport. Caster has won a total of 2 Olympic golds medals & holds no world records. By contrast, Katie Ledecky has won a total of 9 Olympic gold medals & has broken 19 world records youtu.be/B8CzqxhZk7I?si… Fact ~ There is no evi- dence (not a single study) that shows trans women who suppress their testosterone (through gender affirming hormone therapy & /or surgical gonad removal) or 46 XY DSD athletes such as Caster Semenya competing naturally possess any physical attribute relevant to athletic performance that is neither attainable nor present in 46,XX women. Gollish et al. 2025 which shows that WA's DSD regulations aren’t backed by performance data. Gollish et al., found Caster Semenya Runs like a girl. open.substack.com/pub/rogerpielk… New systematic review with meta-analysis ‘the most comprehensive’ synthesis to date (52 studies & 6485 participants) found trans women do not exhibit significant differences in upper or lower body strength or max oxygen consumption relative to c1s women. bjsm.bmj.com/content/60/3/1… The @iocmedia blanket banning #transgender & #Intersex women and girls from the age of 12 from competing in the female category of sports places themselves on a slippery slope. Safety has no gender, sex or chromosome status. The sex, gender or chromosomal status of an athlete does not create any inherent danger or risk to safety. Rather, it is dis- parities in strength, speed & endurance and/or physique of each individual athlete that may, depending on the sport. These blanket trans and intersex bans have NO scientific justification on fairness or safety grounds in a Olympic sport. The IOC blanket trans and intersex ban , totally ignores the massive diversity among trans & intersex women in body size, physiology, training history, athletic abilities etc. transresearch.org.au/post/trans-wom… Professor Andrew Sinclair is Deputy Director of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne. He discovered the human SRY gene and has continued to research gonad development for over 30 years "The IOC states that SRY gene is a reliable test for determining biological sex and therefore who can complete in women’s events. However, this policy is based on the overly simplistic idea that the presence of the SRY gene alone is equivalent to being male. Male sex is much more complex, involving multiple genes other than SRY in developmental pathways as well as hormones. The presence or absence of the SRY gene does not determine the range of human sex characteristics. Individuals with differences of sex development may carry the SRY gene but develop either complete or partial female bodies while others develop male bodies but lack SRY. All the SRY test tells you is whether or not the gene is present. It does not tell you how SRY is functioning, whether a testis has formed, whether testosterone is produced and, if so, whether it can be used by the body. The SRY gene alone should not determine who can compete in women’s sport." theconversation.com/world-athletic… There are over 250 genetic variations among athletes that have proven to have a significant impact on athletic ability, unlike the SRY Gene, bone or lung size or endogenous testosterone levels in transgender or intersex women. Australian law makes these regulations illegal on several grounds. & The performance science does not support a blanket ban. sbs.com.au/news/article/a…