I'm surprised by this. What the heck was the point of the appeal this summer if you aren't going to keep on going.
But thank goodness. I think Caster was put in an awful situation but common sense has prevailed. A penis isn't what makes men better athletes. It's testosterone from testes. If you have testes, you need to be in the open (aka male) division. The protected division - aka female - should be fo xx people without testes.
I liked watching Semenya - like prime Makhloufi but even more dominant. such a good kick
You liked watching Semenya and her buccaneering runs?(according to one commentator)
True, most people align 5-0 with the following markers for sex, but ...
1. Chromosomal sex XY vs. XX
2. Gonadal sex Testes vs. ovaries
3. Internal Anatomy epididymis, vas deferens, seminal vesicles, prostate vs. vagina, cervix, uterus, fallopian tubes
4. External genitalia penis, scrotum vs. clitoris, labia
5. Hormone levels (for example testosterone below): typical levels still show a range male: 10-35 nmol/L female: .35-2.0 nmol/L
What about the folks who are not 5-0, but 4-1 or 3-2?
DSD (differences in sexual development) is the study of the biological factors that influence the presence, absence, and variations of those 5 factors, such as the SRY gene, Müllerian inhibiting substance (MIS), DHT (dihydrotesterone), etc.
Sex is binary. You might be conflating it with gender.
You didn’t quote my post else you would know, like I wrote, that you are one of those people who doesn’t have the capacity to distinguish between a a definition and an empirically testable observation; or between faith and science.
Niki Hiltz claims to be a man. Then SHE needs to run in the MEN'S division. Gee, I wonder why SHE doesn't. Tired of hearing about this nonsense non-stop for 6 years now.
Answer is pretty easy. While Hiltz, to my knowledge, intends to transition, currently still meets all biological requirements for female competitors. Has not taken hormones, is not intersex, etc..
The Paralympics, named so because they run parallel to the Olympics, need to add categories for people with Differences of Sexual Development and Gender Dysphoria.
Niki Hiltz claims to be a man. Then SHE needs to run in the MEN'S division. Gee, I wonder why SHE doesn't. Tired of hearing about this nonsense non-stop for 6 years now.
Niki Hiltz claims to be a man. Then SHE needs to run in the MEN'S division. Gee, I wonder why SHE doesn't. Tired of hearing about this nonsense non-stop for 6 years now.
Regardless of her attidude (which I'm not very fond of) she is a regular biological woman who feels like she is a man.
Given the fact she's a biological female she belongs in women's sport.
"my body produces an elevated amount of testosterone"
Semenya still refuses to be totally honest. Semenya keeps spreading the same misinformation that reporters have used for years saying "my body produces an elevated level of testosterone. " 100% false! Semenya's testes produces the same NORMAL amount of testosterone that all other biological males produce.
Was going to say the same thing about not being completely honest.
Semenya forgot to mention that (s)he has internal testes, no ovaries, no uterus.
Semenya may not have fathered the child, but other people with the same DSD have viable sperm that can be extracted from their internal testes and are the biological father of their offspring.
I'm surprised by this. What the heck was the point of the appeal this summer if you aren't going to keep on going.
But thank goodness. I think Caster was put in an awful situation but common sense has prevailed. A penis isn't what makes men better athletes. It's testosterone from testes. If you have testes, you need to be in the open (aka male) division. The protected division - aka female - should be fo xx people without testes.
ya, it is testosterone limitation, from testes or elsewhere, if you are over, its over.
The bit where it's not true. She doesn't live like a man. She was raised as a girl, believed she was that, found out otherwise later on. She has an unfair advantage in sport, but that doesn't mean that she isn't a woman in every other facet of her life. Dating a woman does not mean that you are not one yourself. I have no problem ackowledging her as a lesbian, as a woman, as a 'she', as a mother. She just shouldn't be in women's sport is all, nothing else.
Fair enough, but it’s theoretically possible she fathered a child withe her wife.
I'm surprised by this. What the heck was the point of the appeal this summer if you aren't going to keep on going.
But thank goodness. I think Caster was put in an awful situation but common sense has prevailed. A penis isn't what makes men better athletes. It's testosterone from testes. If you have testes, you need to be in the open (aka male) division. The protected division - aka female - should be fo xx people without testes.
I wonder if someone with the same type of physical, physiologic, and genetic make-up as Caster could ever actually compete at an elite male level.
ya, it is testosterone limitation, from testes or elsewhere, if you are over, its over.
Not true. The testosterone limit was only put in place for DSD athletes. If a 100% biological female for some very strange reason happened to have higher testosterone then they would still be allowed to run.