A NEW RULING ALLOWS WOMEN WHO HAVE
HIGH LEVELS OF TESTOSTERONE TO CONTINUE TO COMPETE AGAINST
OTHER WOMEN IN ATHLETIC EVENTS.
TO GIVE YOU MORE INFORMATION
ABOUT THIS, IT INVOLVES A RUNNER BY THE NAME OF DUBEE CHAND, AND
THE COURT OF ARBITRATION FOR SPORT RULED TODAY THAT SHE, A
NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD INDIAN SPRINTER, COULD CONTINUE TO
RACE, DESPITE HER HIGHER THAN
NORMAL LEVELS OF TESTOSTERONE.
ACCORDING TO REPORTS, THIS COULD
HAVE SOME IMPACT, OF HAVING HIGHER TESTOSTERONE, COULD
IMPACT THE PERFORMANCE AND GIVE
YOU A HIGHER EDGE.
SO, FOR A LONG TIME, FEMALE ATHLETES HAD.
HAD TO UNDERGO GENDER TESTING.
THEY'RE SAYING NOW, FINALLY, THAT IF YOU HAVE NATURALLY
HIGHER LEVELS THAT IT IS NOT CHEATING AND THEY ARE GOING TO
LET IT GO.
AS RECENTLY AS THE 2012
LONDON OLYMPICS, FOUR WOMEN WERE FORCED TO HAVE THEIR
INTERNAL TESTES REMOVED IN ORDER TO COMPETE.
THEY WERE FEMALE BUT HAD MALE SEX ORGANS.
THEY WERE ALL COMPETING, IS THAT NOT AMAZING?
FOUR OF THEM IN ONE OLYMPICS.
THEY HAD TO HAVE THEIR INTERNAL TESTES REMOVED.
IF THEY GENUINELY WANTED TO UNDERGO THE PROCEDURE, GREAT,
BUT IT IS MIND-BOGGLING FOR ME
THAT SOMEBODY WOULD GO THROUGH SOMETHING SO INVASIVE JUST TO
COMPETE.
I AM NOT AN ATHLETIC PERSON AND THAT'S PART OF THE
REASON WHY I DON'T UNDERSTAND, BUT IF SOMEBODY TOLD ME WHILE I
WAS PLAYING SOFTBALL IN HIGH
SCHOOL, HEY ANA, YOUR BOOBS ARE GETTING IN THE WAY, MAYBE REDUCE
THEM A BIT, I WOULDN'T DO IT.
I WOULD ARGUE THAT HAVING YOUR INTERNAL TESTES REMOVED IS
A WHOLE DIFFERENT LEVEL.
MOST OF US DON'T HAVE INTERNAL TESTES,
SO IT'S NOT MUCH OF AN ISSUE, BUT IT CERTAINLY WAS FOR THOSE
FOUR WOMEN.
ONE OLYMPIC RUNNER HAD BOTH MALE AND FEMALE SEX ORGANS,
AND SHE HAD TO TAKE HORMONES TO
SUPPLEMENT HER ANDROGEN LEVELS.
SO, PART OF THE PROBLEM HERE IS
THAT WE KNOW TOO MUCH.
WE ARE SO SCIENTIFICALLY ADVANCED NOW.
IN THE OLD DAYS, FOR THE WOMAN THAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT IN
THE BEGINNING, WITH A HIGH LEVEL OF TESTOSTERONE, SHE MIGHT HAVE
THAT BECAUSE OF AN IMBALANCE IN THE BODY, WE WOULDN'T KNOW THAT.
WE WOULD JUST THINK SHE WAS GOOD AT RUNNING.
HOW DO WE KNOW?
HOW DO WE EVEN KNOW THAT THEIR TOUGH TESTOSTERONE LEVELS
ARE HIGH?
BECAUSE THEY ARE TESTING THEM NONSTOP.
THEY ARE TRYING TO SEE IF THEY ARE TAKING TESTOSTERONE SUPPLEMENTS.
THAT MAKES SENSE.
FOR ANYONE WATCHING THAT SAYS THAT IT IS NOT FAIR THAT THEY
HAVE HIGH LEVEL OF TESTOSTERONE, THAT IT GIVESTHEM AN EDGE, THE
SAME CAN BE SAID ABOUT SOMEBODY PLAYING IN THE NBA WHO IS SEVEN
FEET TALL.
IT IS JUST HOW THEY ARE NATURALLY BUILT.
THAT DOES
NOT MEAN THAT THEY SHOULD BE BANNED FROM THE SPORT, JUST
BECAUSE THEY HAVE A COMPETITIVE EDGE.
THATíS LIKE GOING TO A RUNNER
AND SAYING, ìYOU ARE TOO FAST.î
THAT USED TO BE CALLED,
ìSAD DAY FOR YOU,î ìYES HE IS FASTER THAN YOU.î ìSHE IS FASTER
THAN YOU BECAUSE SHE HAPPENS TO HAVE A HIGHER LEVEL
OF
TESTOSTERONE.î THERE IS A PART OF ME THAT IS A KNUCKLEHEAD, AND
SAYS, MEN ARE BETTER.
SHE CAN SMOKE ME IN A RACE, DOESN'T
MATTER HOW MUCH TESTOSTERONE
I HAVE.
I KNOW THAT YOU SECRETLY DON'T WANT MEN TO PRETEND THEY
ARE WOMEN AND GO AND WIN THE WOMEN'S EVENTS.
YES, MEN DO HAVE
AN ADVANTAGE OVERALL IN SPEED, STRENGTH, ETC.
YOU ARE GOING
TOO FAR.
THIS IS NOT CHEATING, THIS IS NOT MEN, THIS IS WOMEN.
I DON'T WANT THE OTHER WOMEN TO REMOVE THEIR OTHER TESTES,
AND OTHER BODY PARTS, THAT'S HOW THEY'RE BORN.
I GIVE THOSE WOMEN SO MUCH RESPECT AND CREDIT, BECAUSE THEY
LOVE TO COMPETE.
TO UNDERGO SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THAT IS THE
POINT I WAS TRYING TO MAKE.
TO UNDERGO SOMETHING THAT INVASIVE
BECAUSE YOU LOVE THE SPORT THAT
MUCH IS INCREDIBLE TO ME.
I AM A SUPER COMPETITIVE DUDE, BUT I WOULD NOT LET
YOU TOUCH MY TESTICLES.
DON'T WORRY, NO ONE WANTS TO TOUCH YOUR TESTES.