Intersex is pretty common. She might know that she falls into that category and doesn’t want to provoke a debate which may go against her.
Buuut we should probably have that debate. The sooner a major athletic org has to admit that a strict gender binary is untenable, the sooner we can bulldoze that talking point from transphobes’ scripts.
If I remember correctly the tests themselves were questionable, with sketchy Russian interests involved. She might not even be intersex, simply caught up in a fucked up intersection of geopolitics and culture war bs.
Intersex is pretty common. She might know that she falls into that category and doesn’t want to provoke a debate which may go against her.
Buuut we should probably have that debate. The sooner a major athletic org has to admit that a strict gender binary is untenable, the sooner we can bulldoze that talking point from transphobes’ scripts.
If I remember correctly the tests themselves were questionable, with sketchy Russian interests involved. She might not even be intersex, simply caught up in a fucked up intersection of geopolitics and culture war bs.