Fell Runner wrote:
Mr Jones wrote:It has a LOT to do with being transgender if the latter is pre-op, i.e. in both cases they have functional testes, which are the most effective natural PED known.
A "Pre-op" male to female transgender person is quite straightforwardly *biologically* a man and is choosing to surgically alter aspects of male anatomy.
An Intersex person has no choice about how they were born and their biological sex may be a judgement call for an expert.
Its not as straightforward as that either though.
Semenya, for example, must also be biologically male, because Semenya has testes, and it is only the Y chromosome which codes for the development of testes. We know Semenya has testes with reasonable certainty, because of her testosterone levels, which aren't possible to produce without testes, and her development of male secondary sexual characteristics, as opposed to female ones.
Semenya is actually very similar to a transgender person in that it may be that Semenya's only claim to being female is that Semenya identifies as a female, due to being raised as a female. Although possibly only for races, as Semenya also appears to identify as a male.