Posted on 08/18/2016 10:13:26 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Caster Semenya, 25, a South African runner, is tipped to win the 800m But the athlete has ignited a debate about gender at the Olympic Games Semenya has testosterone levels three times the normal level in women She has no womb or ovaries but rather internal testes due to abnormality
Of all the stars at Rio, few are as hotly tipped for resounding victory as 800m runner Caster Semenya. Fewer still can match her for controversy.
There are those who say she should not be allowed to compete in the Olympics womens 800m, which she is almost certain to win. No doubt they would also like to see her stripped of her former victories gold and silver at the 2009 and 2011 World Championships and silver at the London 2012 Olympics.
It is not accusations of doping that dog the South African, though it does come down to chemistry. The question is whether she is, in fact, a biological woman.
Semenya, 25, has testosterone levels three times the normal level found in women and approaching those of a man. Furthermore, she has no womb or ovaries, and instead, owing to a chromosomal abnormality, internal testes.
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I know absolutely where you are coming from. Thanks for the link...
I found it to be a very good and very informative article. You can’t watch it without having the utmost empathy for what this women went through. She grew up thinking she was a girl and at age 19 they tell her she’s a man? Poor thing. I’m just glad she had a good man to help her through it.
And thanks for bothering to read it. I appreciate that.
I understand. My feeling was that the cases should be adjudicated in a scientific (not emotional) fashion by the governing agency, and not in the way I suspect they might choose nowadays, i.e. “He says he is a woman, that is good enough for us.”
I think it is wrong, and mean spirited to compare people like him to transvestites, who ARE mentally ill, and being encouraged to indulge it their illness by government and other supportive entities.
People train for years through all kinds of hardships to get to compete in the Olympics.
A very hard place to get to.
And now some won’t get a medal because of this insanity.
Maddening.
The true criminals are the officials in charge who are allowing this.
people should compete against their own...
this is reverse racism you know...because they refuse to question wambat and the thing because it would be racist to ask these two black women to submit dna.....
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