IOC to allow transsexual athletes into the Olympics
I've missed the boat (so to speak) for Athens, but if I get the Lightning in the water in time for next year's women's North American championship and get the crew up to speed, I bet we could be competitive at a fairly high level by the time the 2008 Yngling trials roll around. We wouldn't be the favorites, but I'd bet we'd have a legitimate shot....
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Don't post-op transsexuals continue to take hormones? Or am I hopelessly confused?
Now, what the IOC will do about non-op people, or about the galaxy of different surgical options and combinations thereof for FTMs, is still an open question. I'll have to wait to see the actual policy itself that results from this, but it sounds like what they're discussing makes a lot more sense for traditional MTF post-op transwomen like me (and like the two transwomen mentioned in the article) than for FTMs or other types of trans people. I hope that the final policy doesn't stay that way.