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Tennis is the first major women’s sports league to require genetic testing (19thnews.org)
submitted 1 week ago by Wren@lemmy.today to c/feminism@lemmy.world
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The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) has taken a step beyond most other women’s sports leagues by requiring genetic sex testing for female athletes.

Despite being targeted at transgender women, this policy has the greatest potential to impact intersex cisgender women — especially because many of them don’t know they are intersex. There are no known trans women playing on the WTA Tour. But there are plenty of cis women who will now have to go through medical tests to prove their eligibility.

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[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

woosh

I'm joking that if pro golf could they'd exclude POCs fyi

Thought it was a tacit comparison but I guess no

[–] Mandarbmax@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I thought it was a paternity and child support joke actually

[–] Wren@lemmy.today -5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What an unnecessary and fucked up thing to say.