So, guys, Derek, more plates, more dates.com. Today we're going to be talking about the Olympic

athletes that were just banned in the races. They were specialized in for having too high of testosterone

levels. These individuals had levels above the five nanomole per liter cutoff, which is about

144 nanograms per deciliter, if I recall correctly. And they did not

sustain a level below that for a long enough period of time, hence categorizing them as essentially,

you know, something that is performance enhancing above and beyond basic like, I guess, PCOS or basic,

you know, any kind of thing that could be justified as a female level.

So the only thing is, like, yes, the reference range for females only goes up to like, I don't know,

70 nanograms per deciliter or something like that.

But there are, you know, genetic outliers who will produce, you know, just like a male.

You could find males who produce 1,500, 1,600 nanograms per decilator, which is significantly outside

the reference range. And those guys, as far as I know, aren't going to be banned from sport. You're

going to find individuals who are female biologically and produce, you know, 80, 90, 100, 110,

you know, above the reference range, super physiological levels. However, the 5 nanomol per liter cutoff at 144 is kind of

where they deem it to be too much whereby you are essentially crossing into intersex territory,

it seems like, because some new, new, it's not really new data,

but to be honest, it's just more context given to me that I wasn't really aware of when it comes

to the actual chromosomes of these individuals.

So one thing we're going to be referencing first is Castor simania which is the you know most notable case

in which an individual was banned from sport due to the fact that they had excessively high

testosterone levels now the thing that makes it harder to report accurately on this is that none of

these news outlets seem to either disclose and or have access to an accurate representation of

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