Athletes like Semenya will medicate down just enough to slip under the limit.
Meanwhile what do real women do — medicate up to the limit? That’s really their only option to be competitive.
And apparently the allowed women’s T limit is still well above what an actual XX female would have. But it is still better than nothing, like when Semenya and the other intersex non-females were allowed to compete with as much T as their testes produced against actual XX females. That was the rule in effect for the infamous 2016 Olympic women’s 800 meters. (zero medals to females)
Better would be to ban intersex entirely from women’s sports. Should be female only.
well, I suppose if you think that the body is like a sports car, and all the racers should have to compete with identical cars.
We could also have leagues based on height, so that shorter people can win without having to compete against taller people, since it is hard to change your height successfully.
Or, we could just understand that everybody is unique, and it is likely that the top 1% of athletes have many genetic advantages over the rest of us, and that is part of what makes them great athletes, and that still, much of what makes someone able to compete successfully is training, getting into shape, learning the skillsets needed. This is more clear in sports that require a more varied set of skills (like baseball, football, soccer) than a sport like running, where the method to achieve the goal is much simpler.