What Happened to Women’s Rights?
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Slow Start Rollout of the Gender Verification Test
In 1996, the Olympic Committee went to all of the Olympians and they said, are you comfortable doing the gender verification test? And if you were XX, you got to compete in the women's category. That also helped weed out anybody who was 46 XY. So after 1996, when they stopped having the cotton swab test for the XX, it opened the door to people like Caster Semina. Then about 2015, here comes Kristin Worley stating that they have gender dysphoria and thought, hey, if I castrate myself and go through this operation, I can race with the women," he says.
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