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All three medallists in the women's 800m at the 2016 Rio Olympics were male. This was highly controversial, as having three male athletes take gold, silver and bronze in what shoul…

What misinformation?

It is, yes. It is also a substantive critique pointing out methodological issues in that meta-analysis.

If I had chosen to refer to Semenya using pronouns that imply he is female, that would have conflicted with the points I was making.

If you look at accounts from Semenya's early life there is evidence against his account of growing up as a girl. For example, there have been school photos published showing him we…

Here's an in-depth critique of the claims made in that paper: https://www.voidifremoved.co.uk/p/beef-trifle

Agreed, and I think people adopt this reductive view because it can be quite difficult to reason about objectively. In terms of a framework to channel one's thinking on this, I fou…

If Semenya had been categorized according to his sex, he wouldn't be considered amongst the very best athletes. He is basically a middling standard 800m male runner who has been ab…

No, the solution is to exclude male advantage from the female competition via evidence-based analysis, as the IOC's new policy does.

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