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- - - - DD pg 3: "Partly because such complaints mounted, the IOC decided to make use of the modern ‘‘scientific’’ chromosome test. The problem, though, is that this test, and the more sophisticated polymerase chain reaction to de- tect small regions of DNA associated with testes development that the IOC uses today, cannot do the work the IOC wants it to do."
    - - DD pg 3: "Breasts and a vagina were all one needed to certify one’s femininity."
    - - DD pg 5: "They focus primarily on reproductive abilities (in the case of a potential girl) or penis size (in the case of a prospective boy). If a child is born with two X chromosomes, oviducts, ova- ries, and a uterus on the inside, but a penis and scrotum on the outside, for instance, is the child a boy or a girl? Most doctors declare the child a girl, despite the penis, because of her potential to give birth, and intervene using surgery and hormones to carry out the decision."
    - - DD pg 2: "...women’s participation in sports threatened to turn them into manly creatures. In 1, Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics (from which women were originally banned), argued that ‘‘women’s sports are all against the law of nature.’’ ... Olympic officials rushed to certify the femininity of the women they let through the door, because the very act of competing seemed to imply that they could not be true women."
    - - DD pg 4-5: "Could the IOC use muscle strength as some measure of sex? In some cases. But the strengths of men and women, especially highly trained athletes, overlap. (Remember that three women beat Hermann Ratjen’s high jump). And although Maria Patin ̃o fit a commonsense definition of femininity in terms of looks and strength, she also had testes and a Y chromosome."