Posted on 08/12/2016 10:12:35 AM PDT by C19fan
It is likely that on the night of Saturday, Aug. 20, in the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, a 25-year-old South African woman named Caster Semenya will win a gold medal. Her victory will come in the 800 meters, a race in which her times have been approaching a decades-old world record thought by many in the sport to be unapproachable. Her performance will be stunning: She is 5'10" and weighs 161 pounds, with muscular arms, broad shoulders and narrow hips. She has a severe jawline, hard and strong, and a competitor's unflinching eyes. In a 2009 article, Ariel Levy of The New Yorker described Semenya as "breathtakingly butch."
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Caster Semenya is a guy. Period.
Is that African for semen?
Britney Griner Jr.
1936 Olympics
Dora Ratjen
Born mostly a guy. Mixed genitalia I gather. Competed as a girl. Without Nike endorsements.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_Ratjen
I don’t know about fair, but I DO think its FUNNY. :-D
And that leads to a really interesting question. The PC crowd (including those in government) insist that any male who self-identifies as a female be allowed to use women’s restrooms and locker rooms.
The male doesn’t even have to be surgically transitioning. All he need do is self-identify.
So can such a male, if a student, then be allowed to compete for a position on a school’s female athletic team? It would seem only logical.
It’s a difficult situation. She will never be pretty or feminine and full of gracefulness. Perhaps she is also sterile. The one advantage she has in life is her athletic ability. On the other hand, that exceptional ability was bestowed upon her through an error in the genetic code and other women just can’t compete.
Unfair for both sides.
Truth is truth
To the end of reckoning.
- William Shakespeare
“She” has internal testicles and no womb or ovaries, so yeah, I’d say she’s sterile. She’s simply a man that didn’t develop properly. Her much higher levels of testosterone give her an unfair advantage.
What is the chromosome configuration?
The Olympics are a joke. Natural ability is a thing of the very distant past.
That’s a man, baby.
This is less of a problem than the Alaskan boy who said he was a girl and won the girls’ state competition, never even bothering to dress up as a girl.
So, he’s not intersex, but his penis didn’t develop?
What does intersex mean anyway? No penis?
They refuse to tell. I assume he has XY chromosomes, but was raised as a girl. But that doesn’t explain why they allow him to compete against women.
That’s almost a man, baby!
“She” will be the only one in the race wearing a jockstrap. That might be a clue.
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