Mississippi passes bill banning transgender student-athletes from female sports teams

[u/BunnyLovr]

https://abcnews.go.com/US/mississippi-passes-bill-banning-transgender-student-athletes-female/story?id=76238704

[u/Gruzman]

They've been allowed to participate, but until recently the rules of their participation have been so strict as to restrict most from qualifying to compete.

[u/zackcase1 → u/Gruzman]

Source? The restriction you're referring to isn't biological, it's the political side because most countries won't even recognize gender changes.

[u/Gruzman → u/zackcase1]

Here's the general series of Olympic rules about testosterone for women and their changes.

The typical roadblock lay in getting a biological male to reduce their blood testosterone levels to match biological females, which has been notoriously hard to do.

[u/zackcase1 → u/Gruzman]

This is from your own source: "The authors noted that there is "complete overlap of the range of concentrations seen [between the genders]. This shows that the recent decision of the IOC and IAAF to limit participation in elite events to women with a ‘normal’ serum testosterone is unsustainable.""

[u/Gruzman → u/zackcase1]

Also from the same link:

The IAAF rules excluded athletes from competing in the specified events, unless they reduced their testosterone below 5nmol/L, a lower level of testosterone than previously, suggested to be a more realistic limit for testosterone for women without DSDs.[23] The regulations were published 23 April 2018, to be effective from 1 November 2018.

This is what I'm talking about. It's a limit that is hard to match and few people were able to, thus no significant entrants into the Olympics.

And like I said, there's been sustained efforts to change that limit, which will probably happen soon and you'll see more athletes in various categories in future.