Stoppit Smith wrote:
Nice. But it's still not saying that she's a man.
Clinically, it still does address some differences that exist.
The reality is that her genitalia were ambiguous.
It is not uncommon for 5-ARD individuals to be raised as females. Ergo, as far as she was concerned, she was female.
But because the genitalia were ambiguous as a result of the ARD, she's still not a man.
Yes, it is not uncommon for males with 5-ARD to be raised as females initially, for the reasons I detailed at length upthread. But as I previously pointed out, all around the world, the vast majority of 5-ARD males who are mis-sexed as females at birth recognize, and are recognized by others, as males during/after puberty. Because once their testicles start pumping out all that testosterone at adult male levels and their bodies change and masculinize accordingly, it becomes unmistakably apparent that they are in fact males. Males with a DSD, but males all the same.
The big exception to this general rule is 5-ARD males who've become accustomed to participating in female sports and have been successful enough at it to be considered to have a chance at cleaning up as females in elite international competition - and bringing glory to their countries of origin and getting lucrative sponsorships to boot.
Nowadays, such persons tend to come from countries where the political and economic situation provides an incentive for these athletes to continue to claim to be female into adulthood. And where lack of access to good or regular medical care provides them with a convenient excuse for claiming they had no idea that there was anything different about them and anomalous about their development. A claim that can only be countenanced if you truly believe that people in poor and less developed countries never ever noticed menarche and menstruation and and are utterly clueless about all the differences in female and male bodies that become glaringly evident during and after puberty.
Your view that males with ambiguous genitalia due to birth defects can't possibly be men is really unkind to these individuals. Do you think males who've lost their external genitalia due to war injuries, other kinds of accidents or disease also can't be men? I know guys who got their groins blasted or lost their lower bodies in various conflicts and post-war minefields who would beg to differ. So would Ernest Hemingway, who wrote a novel about a WW1 vet with serious groin injuries and had his "manhood" questioned as a result.
Erik Schinegger, who as Erika was the athlete I most avidly admired when I was a child skiing nut, was born not just with ambiguous external genitalia - his were absent because a DSD caused them to be misplaced within his abdominal cavity. According to you Schinegger, like Semenya, "is still not a man." I think he would disagree. As would the daughter he fathered.
https://youtu.be/8mgQ97TKxc8