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No, we can assume no decent technology would be attached to such a poorly planned, ambiguous project.Trump paid for prototype walls to be built by contractors (who had a history of poor work with complaints) in San Diego. He lied and claimed US special forces couldn’t breach it. Any athletic high school kid could!I’m personally familiar with security procedures, walls and fences due to crossing the border several times a year in border towns where the old time existing walls are, and having worked professionally in a correctional setting.The prototype walls (photos) are a joke. They can easily be climbed over and are less tall than existing walls………….and there is nothing on top like Razor wire to discourage climbers.But the Trump wall will never be built. Existing walls and fences are being renovated or replaced, but this is routine, nothing to do with the psycho in chief.

FIFA has a …. sort of policy. Start here: FIFA issues gender verification regulations for all competitions :If a gender verification procedure is opened, the approach is stepwise: the respective team physician shall provide the documents required for further investigation, such as medical history, sex hormone levels, diagnosis, treatment and current findings. If further examinations are required, they may only be performed by an independent expert to be identified in each host country. In cases where the expert is not able to clarify the situation, an expert panel will perform a comprehensive investigation.What isn’t clear in any FIFA documents I’ve been able to find (and that policy dates to 2011 and may well be out dated) is what criteria they use when evaluating the results. If, for example, a transgender woman provides medical history that includes a diagnosis of gender dysphoria and sex hormone levels that are within the norms for cisgender women… is that sufficient? They don’t say. Rather, they say that each case will be handled individually.In this regard, FIFA opens themselves up for complaints of discrimination if the standards are not uniformly applied. FIFA is hardly unique in this case. Sex verification in sport has a long history of being used to target competitors of various ethnic backgrounds and national origins. When the standards aren’t published, it becomes difficult to know if internal policies of member teams are exclusionary or if the body itself is being exclusionary. Since it seeks an “independent expert in each host country” to make determinations about specific athletes… well, I think we can all see what could go wrong there can’t we?That said, Jaiyah Saelua who identifies as fa'afafine has competed on the men’s team in a world cup qualifier.There are a number of football organizations that do have policies on transgender athletes, you can find a few of them at TRANSATHLETE. That said, the list there feels a bit out of date and includes a number of broken links.While I would hope that FIFA would fall in line with the IOC, at the moment, it feels like we’re left waiting for an exceptional transgender athlete to make it far enough competitively to press the issue… at which point, people will bring out the usual pitchforks and torches because when a trans athlete finally makes it to an elite level of sport, despite the odds against it happening, they are instantly accused of having unfair advantage… whether they do or not. At the moment, however, the absence of trans women on the world stage in football (soccer) would seem to indicate that the concerns about large numbers of transgender women disrupting fairness in sport might be a bit overblown.

In many cases the victims were not sure that they were molested. They knew it was uncomfortable, but they believed he was doing something normal.He was in multiple positions of authority. He is a medical doctor. He is recognized in the sports medicine world. He was selected by USA Gymnastics to work with top athletes.He could single-handedly wreck the dreams of world-class athletes. His word could get people medically rejected from these programs. Many students didn’t speak up.He was charismatic. Many people have reported how friendly he was and how he charmed his co-workers and the adults he worked with.He didn’t fit the profile. Most people have a mental image of a molester as a dirty guy with bad teeth luring kids into a van.The extreme traditions of world-class gymnastics. There have been complaints of other types of abuse from coaches and trainers. They pushed students extremely hard. Any sign of resistance was treated like malingering, even to protect yourself.Bodily autonomy is not a common virtue in this world. Young athletes were used to being physically manipulated without permission. All aspects of their body were controlled, observed, and manipulated.Nassar had an excuse for the behavior. Pelvic wall examinations are a medical procedure. Most people will not know when they are appropriate and when they are not. Most people don’t know the difference in procedures between a correct examination and the abusive ones he performed.