Bad Wigins wrote:
NeverAWMDRF wrote:
DSD athletes (led by Semenya) placed 1-2-3 in this Rio Olympics track event!
This slippery-slope, by-association thinking is stupid.
Niyonsaba may not be especially effiminate, but she is short, has broad hips and relatively big legs, and narrow shoulders and a small upper body and arms. And a small, sloping jawline. If you saw her on the street, not knowing who she was, there is no way - don't lie - you would even remotely think she was male.
I’m a woman, and have spent my life racing against other women. And Niyonsaba looks like a typical sticky youthful male to me. Never in a million years would I assume she is a female.
I felt the same when I saw the photo of the British hill runner who was jailed for attempted murder of a UK athletics official charged with investigating whether she had been taking testosterone suppressing medication. Lauren Jeske was of course born male and competed as a male until his teens. Typically male build, albeit slender, especially the shoulders.
Despite this history of violence and abuse of rules, the BBC recently barred women originally invited to appear in a radio programme discussing transgender issues in sport, and only permitted two male born transgender individuals to discuss the issue.
Female athletes and women are being effectively silenced on this issue. Most active athletes will have it in their contracts, either with their sponsors or their national federations, that they are not allowed to speak out.
I still think that some form of protest should be done by the athletes in the next high profile championships to feature Semenya, Niyonsaba year al in a final, by lining up and refusing to start, then after 1 minute, running their own race.
No one is saying these athletes cannot run, just that they should not run against women who are born as women.
Why should it be women that have to bear the brunt of this?
Women are fed up being told what to do by men.
