RunRagged wrote:
Armstronglivs wrote:
If Semenya is male competing as and identifying as a woman she would be categorized as transgender and not intersex. The IAAF rules don't redefine the claimed gender of people like her but focus on that specific characteristic of DSD individuals which is greatly elevated testosterone levels. In female competition, that is the crucial point. Your apparent attempt to say she is a man is not what the IAAF or the rules do and is effectively redundant to the argument that requires a limit on testosterone levels in female competition.
Citations and links please.
Have you read the IAAF/WA regs and clarifying statements along with the full decision released by the CAS early last summer?
Have you ever spoken to a medical professional with expertise in DSD conditions? Or to any of the many brilliant persons with DSDs now doing advocacy on behalf of people with these conditions?
You just keep making unsubstantiated assertions using a lot of sloppy language, and you're constantly switching terms and moving goalposts. I think it's reasonable to conclude you have no idea what you're talking about, and absolutely no clue about what differentiates biological males from biological females.
To you and many other males, the incursion of males with genital deformities and cross-sex trans identities into female sports seems to be a matter of curiosity but no real consequence. But to me and millions of other biological females - especially those of us who grew up before the USA's Title IX gave females a sporting chance and who've worked hard over succeeding decades to make female sports a legit thing - this is a matter of vital importance.
I'm not gonna respond to your posts from now on. You don't appear to have any respect for female people, or any grasp of what makes us female in the first place, even though you like every other human being who has ever lived came from one. Go well.