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The gender police are back again

Started by Butterfly, February 08, 2010, 05:02:45 PM

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February 08, 2010, 05:02:45 PM
The gender police are back again
Ottawa Citizen
By Laura Robinson, Citizen Special
05 February, 2010


http://www.ottawacitizen.com/opinion/gender+police+back+again/2524507/story.html


Female Olympic athletes had a 10-year reprieve from having to prove they actually are women, but it appears the gender police are back for the Vancouver Games.

The 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney were the first Olympics since 1968 where women athletes did not have to be "tested" through a buccal smear to make sure they were female. These tests, which used a swab of saliva from the athletes, had a 20-per-cent false positive rate, something the IOC chose to ignore. Instead they sent women packing, telling them to feign an injury or be exposed as not really being female.
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