Lia Thomas and the long tradition of 'gender policing' female athletes

[Jilly_in_VA]

3. I think you're missing the point of the article

which is not about Lia Thomas specifically, or even about trans women in sports, but about gender policing women in sports. Please go back and re-read the whole thing.

I remember the Press sisters. They were very scary looking and very good at what they did. In keeping with Russian custom at the time, they also did not shave legs and pits as western women did, and they were pretty hairy. As soon as even rudimentary gender and drug testing came about for the Olympics, they mysteriously disappeared and were never heard from again. That would have been about 1960 or 1964, I believe.

But other women athletes are getting "gender policed" even now for having testosterone levels that are deemed "too high", even though they are naturally occurring, which can happen in the normal course of things. Some were born intersex and raised as women, didn't even know they weren't. Others are natural born females but just have this anomaly. WADA needs to get their act together and listen to honest to Pete scientists.

And women still get gender policed in sports and labeled "lesbian" for being athletes whether they are or not (and why should anyone give a flying Wallenda about someone else's sexuality anyway if they are secure in their own--I guess these people, mostly men and a few prissy-ass females, are not).