Intersex athlete Christine Mboma wins 200 in 21.84

RunRagged wrote:

Per the standards that WA uses, the normal T range for females is .02-1.68 nmol/L; for males it's 7.7-29.4 nmol/L.

The current WA rules apply only to athletes competing in women's athletics with a small number of specific DSDs who have male levels of T. These athletes have male levels of T because they have male gonads, testes, or combination gonads in which functioning testicular tissue is predominant. These athletes also have male-typical androgen sensitivity that enables their bodies to make use of the T that their male gonads produce as males typically do.

All except one of the conditions listed in the WA DSD regs solely occur in persons with XY sex chromosomes. WA has said on many different occasions that the only athletes subject to the current DSD rules to those who are XY.

DSD stands for disorders/differences of sex development, or disorders of sex differentiation, which are umbrella terms for approximately 40 different, discrete inherited conditions that cause atypical sex development in male and female people. Nowadays many use the term VSC, which stands for variations of sex characteristics.

There are a number of different conditions that occur in female people which can cause us to have "naturally high T." Such as PCOS, CAH and pregnancy. But female people who have "high T" have "high T" relative to the normal female range, .02-1.68 nmol/L. The T levels of females with "high T" come nowhere near the normal male range, 7.7-29.4 nmol/L.

The one exception is women who have testosterone-secreting tumors due to cancer. Some women with such tumors will have T in the lower end of the normal male range. But they will also be extremely ill - way too ill to be participating in elite level international sports, much less to be placing, winning and setting records.

StayerFan wrote:

RunRagged wrote:

Per the standards that WA uses, the normal T range for females is .02-1.68 nmol/L; for males it's 7.7-29.4 nmol/L.

The current WA rules apply only to athletes competing in women's athletics with a small number of specific DSDs who have male levels of T. These athletes have male levels of T because they have male gonads, testes, or combination gonads in which functioning testicular tissue is predominant. These athletes also have male-typical androgen sensitivity that enables their bodies to make use of the T that their male gonads produce as males typically do.

All except one of the conditions listed in the WA DSD regs solely occur in persons with XY sex chromosomes. WA has said on many different occasions that the only athletes subject to the current DSD rules to those who are XY.

DSD stands for disorders/differences of sex development, or disorders of sex differentiation, which are umbrella terms for approximately 40 different, discrete inherited conditions that cause atypical sex development in male and female people. Nowadays many use the term VSC, which stands for variations of sex characteristics.

There are a number of different conditions that occur in female people which can cause us to have "naturally high T." Such as PCOS, CAH and pregnancy. But female people who have "high T" have "high T" relative to the normal female range, .02-1.68 nmol/L. The T levels of females with "high T" come nowhere near the normal male range, 7.7-29.4 nmol/L.

The one exception is women who have testosterone-secreting tumors due to cancer. Some women with such tumors will have T in the lower end of the normal male range. But they will also be extremely ill - way too ill to be participating in elite level international sports, much less to be placing, winning and setting records.

If one of the conditions can occur in persons with XX chromosomes that doesn't mean ALL. WA changed the rules since 2019 without any public discussion and CAS permission.

We even don't know maybe WA only tests T-level and nothing more. If you check topic that I shared above you can find some cases when women have high T-level (more than 5 nmol/L) without mentioned conditions.

RunRagged wrote:

StayerFan wrote:

The rule applies to almost all women with a high T-level. DSD doesn't mean that you are intersex. This is a very broad concept with different characteristics.

Per the standards that WA uses, the normal T range for females is .02-1.68 nmol/L; for males it's 7.7-29.4 nmol/L.

The current WA rules apply only to athletes competing in women's athletics with a small number of specific DSDs who have male levels of T. These athletes have male levels of T because they have male gonads, testes, or combination gonads in which functioning testicular tissue is predominant. These athletes also have male-typical androgen sensitivity that enables their bodies to make use of the T that their male gonads produce as males typically do.

All except one of the conditions listed in the WA DSD regs solely occur in persons with XY sex chromosomes. WA has said on many different occasions that the only athletes subject to the current DSD rules to those who are XY.

DSD stands for disorders/differences of sex development, or disorders of sex differentiation, which are umbrella terms for approximately 40 different, discrete inherited conditions that cause atypical sex development in male and female people. Nowadays many use the term VSC, which stands for variations of sex characteristics.

There are a number of different conditions that occur in female people which can cause us to have "naturally high T." Such as PCOS, CAH and pregnancy. But female people who have "high T" have "high T" relative to the normal female range, .02-1.68 nmol/L. The T levels of females with "high T" come nowhere near the normal male range, 7.7-29.4 nmol/L.

The one exception is women who have testosterone-secreting tumors due to cancer. Some women with such tumors will have T in the lower end of the normal male range. But they will also be extremely ill - way too ill to be participating in elite level international sports, much less to be placing, winning and setting records.