: Why are some female athletes being disqualified from the olympics for their natural testosterone levels ?
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There have been a few problems with women’s running the last few years. Both people accused of being men in disguise, transgender women trying to compete with the other women and also suspicion of women taking testosterone to boost their performance. In an effort to prevent these issues they changed the rules and now the definition of a women is based on their levels of testosterone. This is the first Olympics with the new rules. And it have caused some issues where women with naturally high testosterone levels which would have been able to qualify as women under the old rules now have to compete with the men.
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