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Are you for real? This is a list of women that "should've" won because of...some unspecified unnamed unverified trans athlete that came ahead of them?

We don't know who is being accused of taking their glory, we don't know if it's 1 person or 100. We don't know if the people that supposedly defeated them is even Trans, or a CIS victim of the Trans Panic like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caster_Semenya

We don't know if the women who beat these "she won" women are self-identified, have been on hormones for 2 weeks, or 20 years.

What a ludicrous transphobic panic.




The purpose of that website is to showcase the achievements of women athletes, not the males who unfairly displaced them in competition. If you look up names and tournaments in your preferred search engine, you will be able to find the additional information you're interested in.

Also, Caster Semenya is male, with a male-only DSD. This is a fact that was confirmed in the IAAF arbitration proceedings. Semenya's higher levels of testosterone, when compared to female athletes, are due to the presence of functional internal testes. Semenya has since fathered children.




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