Reminiscent of the South African runner, Caster Semenya.
Semenya is an intersex woman, assigned female at birth, with XY chromosomes and naturally elevated testosterone levels. Following her victory at the 2009 World Championships, she was made to undergo sex testing, and cleared to return to competition the following year. In 2019, new World Athletics rules came into force preventing women like Semenya from participating in 400m, 800m, and 1500m events in the female classification unless they take medication to suppress their testosterone levels. In 2021, she filed an appeal with the European Court of Human Rights against the restrictions.
If you look at the physical appearance of both runners, they appear more male than female. The XY chromosomes are an indicator that can’t be denied. Normally, those with XY chromosomes are classified as male. The Namibian runner may have hermaphroditism.
In a college level heredity class, we were told that a person can have many commutations and numbers of X and y
chromosomes, but if there is just one y, then the person is
male.
That was back in 1980 when science wasn’t woke.
That’s the problem. There actually are people who were born intersex or hermaphrodite. Some have competed as women in the past.