Posted on 08/21/2016 1:20:41 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
South African runner Caster Semenya dominated the women’s 800-meter final Saturday in Rio, finishing well ahead of the competition to take home the gold medal.
Semenya is widely believed to be “intersex,” defined by the United Nations as people born with sex characteristics “that do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies.” The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) last summer suspended International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) rules prohibiting athletes who exceed a testosterone threshold from competing in women’s track and field events, clearing the way for Semenya to compete in Rio.
The CAS ruling claimed that high testosterone levels didn’t necessarily give female athletes an advantage.
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Semenya finished a whole second ahead of the next-closest finisher, setting a personal best with a time of 1:55.28.
Person cannot be both male and female at the same time. There is no intersex.
This person has no female organs and is not a female. He does have tesicles that have not distended.
He has testicales that are “inside” and not distended. He does not having female characteristics.
Watch out for the United Nations.
No one is born as bit male and female, but there is a move to change the definition.
If Obama has a son... he’d look like someone who could win the gold in the Women’s 800M.
lets take it a bit further and allow men to have monthly periods and push 8lb babies out their penises....fair is fair...
The United Nations is trying to change the word hermaphrodite. More wedding by the UN.
The person question needs to see a medical specialist who can correct “her”condition, or allow it to continue at the patient’s request.
But this is more U>N meddling.
No knows how to handle it, true. But supposedly Olympians with intersex/androwhateveritis/women with un-normal levels of testosterone supposedly occur much more frequently than in the general population of humans. In other words they might gravitate towards sport for obvious reasons, especially if they are from poor nations/areas.
So it’s not like this is an isolated incident, or a really rare thing I guess, at least in the context of sport.
Freegards
That’s a man, baby....
Remember, she wasn't raised in San Francisco. She was raised in a tribal part of South Africa. They wouldn't tolerate raising a boy as a girl.
I agree with others that it is not right to denounce her for a condition that is not her fault. I also think it is not right that the sporting world forced her to take testosterone-inhibiting drugs, which CAS overturned.
Yes, she is an anomaly, and that gives her a competitive advantage. But it is a natural advantage, same as a 6-5 female basketball player.
I’m not sure what this individual presents as far surface genitals goes. I’m not sure we can assume anything, but yes it would seem to be outlandish no one has ever looked, especially considering where the athlete is from and what the appearance seems to be.
Like I said I don’t know what any solution might be. It seems like it is down to chromosome sex tests or testosterone level limits, and both seem to leave some people outside those parameters unfairly, as well as normal range female athletes. At least to my understanding.
Freegards
Homos and commies have now officially destroyed the Olympics, what sane country would host these?
Somalia 2020!
The solution is what it used to be. If you have elevated testosterone levels you do not compete against women.
Per this article, the Olympics no longer test for testosterone levels...who thought that would be a good idea?? Intersex/hermaphrodism is very rare, Olympics have male and female competitions. If you are unfortunate enough to have an intersex condition, you should compete in the class you most closely resemble in terms of physiology, i.e. testosterone levels and chromosomes, or else you don’t compete. Anyone who has to artificially lower their testosterone levels in order to qualify for women’s competition should also not be allowed to compete. Not your fault, not anybody’s fault, but sometimes life is not fair.
Since they are no longer testing for testosterone levels, however, I predict many of the women’s competitions are shortly going to become absolutely ridiculous before they either self destruct or testing is reinstated.
Love, O2
He was born with malformed sexual organs/sexual characteristics. From what I have read, he does have testicles, though they are inside his body and must be secreting testosterone, albeit at a far lower level.
They did say he has no uterus or ovaries, but I don’t know that means he doesn’t have a vagina either.
Are there actual women athletes who don’t have anything abnormal or intersex about them but who just produce abnormally high levels of testorone?
FReegards
Intersex males don’t have vaginas. If he was raised as a girl, he certainly looks like he’s accepted his maleness completely, except when it comes to racing against them. Someone pointed out how slow he is compared to the male Gold medal runners.
This happened before just recently, in a high school setting.
It will happen much more if the deviants continue to get their way.
there are many conditions you may be unaware of. I’ve seen people born with no penis, a vagina and are XY. I’ve also seen XX children born with a penis and fused labia. And there are kids born varying from one extent to the other. It is rare and hard on families, but it does happen.
I understand. that there are people that have ambiguous genitalia.
But my understanding is that there are never two sets of functioning sexual organs on one person.
Wasn’t this considered to be something that could be solved, in time, by medical treatment?
Now, with the government trying to convince us that there are really no such designations as male or female, it appears that there is an agenda.
Do you find it odd, that during the years of the Obama administration that we now have no sexual boundries?
Obama is the devil and it is no coincidence. On the other hand, the olympics had rules before Obama because sometimes you can’t tell at first, or second glace if a person should be competing as a female.
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