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https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Helen_Stephens

Helen Herring Stephens (February 3, 1918 – January 17, 1994) was an American athlete, a double Olympic champion in 1936.

At the 1936 Olympics it was suggested that Stephens and her 100 meters rival Stanisława Walasiewicz of Poland, who had both X0 and XY chromosomes, were in fact male. The Olympic Committee performed a physical check on Stephens and concluded that she was a woman.

wtf

the olympics does this shit all the time

similar cases have occurred with intersex athletes recently

this literally happened in the last summer olympics

happens all the time like you can be male and have as jacked physiology as possible and that's fine, but if a woman looks even slightly "masculine" out come the mid century gender tests. what happened to caster semenya was especially horrible b/c they wouldn't allow her to compete again without some heinous unscientific hormone modification regimen. whole things fucked

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