Apparently, I entered some secret code ... ... less than 5 feet tall. The intersex condition confers no performance advantage.
Angry Willy wrote:
There are intersex women, with low estrogen, (and also low testosterone) who are unable to have children - Mosaic Turner Syndrome, for example. Everyone would identify these girls and women as female. There was a world champion gymnast who had Turner Syndrome. Most TS girls and women are very small (
A better question to ask.... wrote:
A better question to ask is if Caster has a prostate and back hair.
Likely not with the back hair.
For some reason, many intersex women do not develop pubic or underarm hair.
As for prostate, from what I’ve read, it’s extremely rare for a woman to have a prostate but there are recorded cases of intersex women who are externally female but do have a prostate.
Angry Willy wrote:
Apparently, I entered some secret code ...
... less than 5 feet tall. The intersex condition confers no performance advantage.
Angry Willy wrote:
There are intersex women, with low estrogen, (and also low testosterone) who are unable to have children - Mosaic Turner Syndrome, for example. Everyone would identify these girls and women as female. There was a world champion gymnast who had Turner Syndrome. Most TS girls and women are very small (
Interesting. Most Turner syndrome sufferers are severely mentally and physically disabled.
In answer to the question. No. Even with medical assistance, Semenya could not have children or get pregnant because the evidence points to her having the same genetic disorder as Dutee Chandler, 5-ARD syndrome, which prevents chromosonally male utilising testosterone in the womb to build male sexual organs. Any purportedly outward female organs are therefore likely to have been surgically created to enable the sufferer to be raised as a girl.
Dutee Chand has a severe form of the disorder (according to court reports) which causes lack of uptake to also prevent development of the secondary make sexual characteristics, unlike Semenya.
You can actually understand the argument when applied to Chand that testosterone doesn’t make that much difference in performance, as she has not benefited from the puberty changes associated in males. Her body simply doesn’t respond to high levels of free testosterone. However Semenya does, although her performance dropped considerably when she was required to lower her t levels to only 10 times those of females.
The other explanation is of course that semenya is simply not a very gifted athlete, equivalent to an average standard club runner male. And that the women finishing close to her are much more talented, as were the women who took t supplements in the past and ra n times which semenya, even with her secondary sexual male characteristics gained by going through standard male puberty, approaches on much greater t levels.
You are incorrect. National Institute of Health: "Most girls and women with Turner syndrome have normal intelligence." Most are not physically disabled. https://youtu.be/9kbs0QIuTmQ Seems fine.
Yhhdbk wrote:
Interesting. Most Turner syndrome sufferers are severely mentally and physically disabled.