Wear a dress and win gold

[windansea]

Men living as women may be allowed to compete in the Olympics, reports Simon Hart from London.

Male athletes aiming to win Olympic medals without having to resort to banned drugs may soon have a new, legal way of gaining an advantage over their rivals - wear a dress for two years and then compete as a woman.

This week the International Olympic Committee will decide whether to amend its rules to allow transsexuals who have had a sex change to compete under their new gender.

That proposal is controversial enough, since most sex changes are man-to-woman and critics say those transsexuals will retain unfair advantages of height and strength over female opponents. But the IOC is preparing to go further and allow transsexuals who have not had sex-change surgery to compete under their new gender so long as they have "lived as a woman" for two years.

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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/24/1077594830755.html

[mouse7]

1. That wouldn't help me

Mia Hamm would destroy me in tryouts for my best sport.

[htuttle]

2. Wear a dress for two years?

This is a grrreat, grrreat day for Scotland, laddie! They are going to bring some gold home to Edinburgh next Olympics!

[windansea]

3. heh heh

I wonder how the IOC will define "living as a woman"

[saigon68]

4. Then I saw this

Yikes




http://www.pocho.com/news/2000/olympics/olympics092600.html

I think this is part of a self-depreciating ethnic web-site?

[cprise]

5. Sorry to say this

but that won't fly... it's not fair.

[gold_bug]

6. defining transsexualism is a bit more complicated

than merely wearing a dress for two years.

Lord Moynihan ... said that unless the IOC set out clear medical criteria for sex-change athletes, the new rules would make a mockery of sport.