To the editor: Earlier than the Worldwide Olympic Committee begins its costly and intrusive testing regime, it ought to ballot all residing girls who’ve received Olympic medals on whether or not or not they endorse necessary testing (“A sex test for Olympic contenders harms all women,” April 27). In the event that they don’t, why transfer ahead?
And if carried to its excessive, which all such measures finally are, when are we to start testing all American Youth Soccer Group members, and what number of mother and father will simply keep away from these early athletic participation alternatives to dodge the brand new monetary and psychological prices concerned? Be happy to ask any Saturday outing of soccer mother and father in the event that they share the IOC’s fears.
Subsequent, don’t assume this can be a gender subject just for girls. Wouldn’t the frequent notion that girls are physiologically higher at endurance give them one thing of a bonus in drawn-out competitions over “absolutely” male contestants? So, shouldn’t all male members be examined as effectively?
Lastly, I concern this “debate” will descend into the previous, if not the graves of enshrined heroes. Do we actually need 1932 Los Angeles gold medalist Babe Didrikson Zaharias exhumed to show that she “deserved” her medals? Let’s cease this earlier than it will get any worse.
John Holtz, Los Angeles
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To the editor: Forward of the 2028 Summer season Olympics in Los Angeles, the IOC has revealed it’ll require athletes to bear genetic intercourse screenings to compete in girls’s occasions, a significant shift in worldwide sports activities coverage.
IOC officers stated the brand new coverage ensures equity and security in girls’s sports activities, citing evidence that those that are born male retain bodily benefits even after hormone remedy. Recent Gallup polling reveals that greater than two-thirds of Individuals imagine that athletes ought to compete within the class that corresponds with their start intercourse. However the resistance to frequent sense stays ferocious, and the combat will proceed — albeit not, fortunately, on the Olympics.
Brian Goldenfeld, Thousand Oaks
