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News and Events => Arts & Entertainment News => Topic started by: LostInTime on November 09, 2006, 10:01:41 AM

Title: Transsexuals Push Sports to Think Anew: Who Is Male, Female?
Post by: LostInTime on November 09, 2006, 10:01:41 AM
link (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601079&sid=aU__Pd3z5.js&refer=home)

``We are delving into the investigation of what is sex, and we are learning it is a far more complex question than we ever imagined,'' says Arne Ljungqvist, 75, a Swedish pathologist on the International Olympic Committee's medical panel.

The Lausanne, Switzerland-based IOC drew up a policy in 2004 that allows ``transitioned'' athletes to compete once they have changed their legal status, had surgery and waited two years to lose the advantages of the sex hormones testosterone or estrogen.