RunRagged wrote:
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When you say, "We don't hear nearly often enough just how male an Mboma or a Semenya really is," I don't know what you mean by "just how male." They have male sex chromosomes, male gonads (testes), other male repro organs (prostate, seminal vesicles), male levels of T, and male-typical sensitivity to T. They developed as males, and thus have much larger hearts and lungs and much greater cardiovascular capacity than women do, longer bones, narrower pelvises, male muscle mass and strength, male twitch fibers and so on. The only physical male feature they lack are normal-sized and shaped penises. Some might have no penis, others might have small or misshapen ones.
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well - the 'popular narrative', at least a popular advanced by advocates on her behalf, is that Semenya is a woman in all respects other than some trivial/probably marginal or ambigous T reading that could just as easily have arisen as a result of a condition such as PCOS. I don't agree with it. per my earlier post, sure, I don't think you can make a conclusive, in all respects watertight, case that a Semenya type belongs in the male class, but the arguments that she belongs in the female class would be far weaker still.
related, hypothetically, would an XX woman with acute PCOS, leading to a T reading of say 6 [or 10 or 15] nmol/L, be allowed to compete?
thanks.