Petition Urges International Olympic Committee to Revoke Caitlyn Jenner's Olympic Title
A petition posted to change.org is asking the International Olympic Committee to take back the gold medal Caitlyn Jenner won in the decathlon at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games.
"We congratulate Ms. Jenner on these new developments and wish her the best," the petition states. "However, this creates somewhat of a problem as Ms. Jenner (as talented as she is) claims that she has always believed herself to be truly female, and therefore, was in violation of committee rules regarding women competing in men's sports and vice versa."
The IOC has long struggled with how to differentiate men and women, based off the assumption that the two genders should not compete against one another in contests of athletic ability. For years, all female Olympians were subjected to the humiliating process of mandatory gender verification. That practice was stopped en masse in the 1990s, though the IOC still retains the right to seek gender verification for specific athletes.
In the case of Caitlyn Jenner, the point is moot. While Jenner has said she has always known she was a woman, at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, she was not taking hormone therapy. (Furthermore, had she been taking hormones to suppress her natural testosterone, she'd have been at a distinct disadvantage against her male competitors.)
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