aguywhodoesstuff wrote:
LM wrote:Care to summarize the quote and what you said?
I understand that Semenya is in a frustrating position because she is naturally born into an unusual situation where she was born a woman but possesses masculine qualities such as abnormally high levels of testosterone which grant her a competative advantage.
Look, I think we need a clearer understand of human biology!
Semenya was almost certainly not born a woman. Semenya is almost certainly XY with testes that produce testosterone, and a slight inability in her body to turn testosterone and the other male hormones into secondary sexual characteristics. Or possibly she has not such difficulty but her male sexual organ simply didn't develop. It is possible she has a surgically created vagina.
But of course we are meant to sacrifice womens' athletics and not know the exact detail of any of this.
Is there really any such thing as "intersex"? All foetus start off as female and it is the development of the Y chromosome that makes them male. That means male characteristics develop. You do get XXY and XYY combinations (Klinefelter's and Turner's Syndrome) but they are extremely rare and invariably carry along physical and mental problems which would mean these conditions would not be represented in Olympic medal winning athletes.