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Typically intersexed athletes compete with women for one of two reasons:

1) The male hormones they possess give them some advantages in terms of muscle development over normal female athletes while the lower natural levels of those same hormones compared to normal men put them at a relative disadvantage. Both male and female athletes have tried to cheat by adding more of these natural hormones to their systems to enhance and accelerate muscle growth and to speed up muscle repair after an injury or stressful competition or training.

2) Intersexed athletes may have some outward physical characteristics of males, but they tend to be very underdeveloped. As a consequence, they tend to look more female than male and may be more comfortable being identified as female.

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