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   Andrea Junker :verified: (strandjunker@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Mar-2025 09:28:19 JST Andrea Junker :verified:

   Did you know? Chromosome testing in sports has been done before and was stopped because cisgender people repeatedly learned that their chromosomes didn’t match their assigned sex. — Something the “XX and XY only” crowd seems to have forgotten.

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     Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈ (realtegan@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 30-Mar-2025 10:33:40 JST Laura "Tegan" Gjovaag ⛈

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     • Deb Nam-Krane

     @dnkboston @Strandjunker
     The wikipedia article has information on one case, with links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_verification_in_sports

     There's also an article in Scientific American that refers to it: https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/sex-testing-in-the-olympics-and-other-elite-sports-is-based-on-flawed/

     "It will not necessarily catch all men who try to enter a women’s competition because some men can have XX chromosomes. All you’re going to do is catch women who have no idea there’s anything different about them..."

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     Deb Nam-Krane (dnkboston@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Mar-2025 10:33:41 JST Deb Nam-Krane

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     @Strandjunker Is there a link? Or a place I should search? I might want to make a few people read that.

     Steve's Place repeated this.