Most sports have a men’s category, a women’s category—and intense fighting about the definitions. Some researchers are proposing options to end the binary.
At the dawn of the 2020s, most sports have a men’s category, a women’s category—and. In a bid for a cease-fire, researchers around the world are proposing options to eliminate the binary.
In some women’s events, the field has a disproportionate number of intersex competitors, who have lived their lives as women but were born with one of a range of differences in sex development. These include partial androgen insensitivity syndrome and other genetic mutations, such as 5-alpha reductase deficiency, which give them some physical characteristics typically associated with men—and a perceived competitive advantage.
Officials are also responding to transgender athletes—aspiring Olympians in sports from marathon to volleyball to weightlifting—who pose many of the same questions about the binary division of sports. The disputes are rippling across high school, college and adult recreational sports, too. High school students in Connecticut are suing to keep transgender girls from competing in the female category.
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