“reverted to their training”

Okay, but how do we account for the feeling human beings that are placed at an egregiously unfair disadvantage if we don’t make that distinction?

Uhhhh.... I’m still trying to figure out how this is a “best practise” in any scenario.

A bore.

Yes, you are, and still a boor.

And still bored with you.

Boring

The tats tell you all you need to know.

Yawn.

Still waiting...

No, it’s narrowly written to target the problem at hand. That’s how literally all laws and regulations are written if they expect to pass judicial review.

Ugh, spare me your patronizing bullshit.  

You’re the one appealing to authority, idiot. I didn’t bring the DMV into this.

This is one of those points of law that most people don’t get: you only make rules for things that are actually happening, not what might. The narrower your proposed law the better it’s chances of passing judicial review. If they had written a regulation covering hypothetical women in other sports it’s likely that the…

1. There are no women (46XX) with her testosterone level. None.
2. The other women-presenting runners with similar levels are also 46XY DSD. There are not enough of them to form a league as this is quite rare.
3. This only prohibits her competing in the women’s, it says nothing about men’s.

What does that have to do with anything? This is the governing body of a given sport ruling on the conditions of participation. That is their fundamental responsibility and they cannot hand it off to, what, the WHO?

They are using the “sex” marked on birth certificates as male or female and substituting the word gender for sex on the form because some little old lady might clutch her pearls. Now many will accept a court order to change it. This is essentially what almost all major institutions have been doing for decades before…

Do you think they don’t have a whole golf club full of doctors working this?

Sure, but no one would watch.

The agency in question only has power over running.