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elderolddog
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Date: March 23, 2023 05:42PM
> The council also voted to cut the \
> maximum plasma testosterone for\
> athletes with differences in sex \ I rearranged the
> development in half, to 2.5 nano- / wording a bit. I
> moles per liter, from 5.0 nano- / think it's the
> moles liter. / 5.0 & 0.5 ...
"Normal measurements for
plasma testosterone tests:
Female: 0.5 to 2.4 nmol/L."
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https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/tests/testosteroneFor comparison, male normal plasma testosterone is 10 to 35 nanomoles per liter.
It was a bit confusing to me, but my take is that the high end of "normal" plasma testosterone in females is 2.4 nanomoles per liter, which is 0.1 nanomoles per liter less than what the WAC (Western Athletic Conference*: Go Cougs!) will allow.
I see this as trying to do the right thing for 'true body' females. They will allow transgender females to compete so long as they don't have the 'turbo-boost' of more than normal plasma testosterone.
While noodling around the 'net, I found this article:
https://novonordiskfonden.dk/en/news/more-women-than-expected-are-genetically-men/The article said, "Morris syndrome is now called 46,XY DSD: androgen insensitivity syndrome.
"These people have an extremely high level of testosterone and other male sex hormones, but the testosterone does not affect the foetal cells that usually develop into male sexual organs because of a mutation in the androgen receptor gene. These people, therefore, have male chromosomes but are women socially and in external appearance."
So the 2.4 nanomoles per liter rule would likely remove these individuals from female competitions if they were subject to the test. But per the article, they won't be, since they were born externally female.
I've been following track since I discovered the Newbury Park High School track team two years ago and I think I've seen some female track stars who are probably 46,XY DSD individuals.
Probably society will get around to removing them from competition to make it 'fair' to 'normal' people. I tend not to pity 'normal' people because they never pitied me...
*just in case, here are some WAC facts
https://wacsports.com/about/history/wachistory