(March 23, 2017 at 6:05 pm)Aoi Magi Wrote: Well yeh, and that is for the person and the sports committee to decide. However, from my perspective this situation is quite similar to when a boxer drops down two or more weight brackets. A heavyweight dropping to fly-weight might seem like giving them a huge advantage but the sharp drop in weight kinda balances it out.
I was going to use that similarity of dropping weight in my last post but deleted it. Although I think a heavy weight dropping to fly weight might result in death in a lot of cases.
The situation is what it is. We won't know how well this person would have competed or if they even would have competed had they been born a girl.
What we have is someone who's born a man, gone through puberty and developed the bone structure and size of a man. They didn't perform with seemingly much recognition as a man against other men and then had some hormone treatment and competed against women and they did great and beat all their competition.
I don't know if that's technically fair or even what fair is, I know if I was the woman who got silver, bronze or the woman who came 4th I'd be annoyed with the situation though.
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