Posted on 07/04/2024 5:02:18 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s
Edited on 07/04/2024 5:17:50 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Oops just saw the comments.
She is in the right category so of course the MSM has to gaslight people.
I thought the Olympic committee barred trannys from competing against women..
I tried "going commando" for a while as a teen-ager but that was a bad time to be affected by breezes.
Caster Semenya has 46 XY DSD and androgen insensitivity syndrome. Androgen insensitivity syndrome occurs in a wide range of severity and can lead to atypical and ambiguous external genitalia and a masculinization of other secondary sexual characteristics (breasts, facial features, hair, musculature). In extreme cases, the penis can be tiny or missing and the genitalia can appear (at first glance, without a gynecological examination) to be female, with what looks like a vulva. IOW, Caster may be one of the rare cases in which the highly reliable eyeball test fails and the phrase “sex assigned at birth” makes sense.
I assume the attendants at Caster’s delivery glanced below the waist and congratulated Caster’s parents on their new baby girl. They raised Caster as a girl. Caster took to running while still a child and naturally ran girls’ track. As puberty rolled around, opposing athletes and coaches questioned Caster’s sexuality, and South African sporting officials required Caster to strip and submit to visual inspection. Caster found this humiliating but continued to pass the eyeball test.
Caster, however, has undescended testicles and produces a normal male testosterone level. He does not have a vagina, uterus, ovaries or fallopian tubes. He has male musculature. If he walked in the door fully clothed, you would see a trim, fit man with the build of a middle distance runner. It took years before this was finally established as Caster’s sexuality continued to be challenged and the case was joined in international athletic governing bodies and international courts.
Caster has understandably resisted having every detail of his medical situation made public. Everyone involved with the case has been sympathetic to his privacy rights. As far as I know, no photograph of Caster in the nude (especially below the waist) has ever been released. The problem, of course, is that Caster’s case has been used to drive a sweeping trans agenda in athletics while advocates hide the ball on relevant details.
Caster was raised as a girl. He is now married to a woman. I do not know if he considers it a lesbian marriage, and how it works physically, I have no idea. Caster has never permitted the release of pictures nor, as far as I know, discussed what he and his wife do in bed.
My layman’s assessment is that Caster is a man wrongly assigned at birth, raised as a girl, and probably with ambiguous or deceptive secondary sexual characteristics. Unfortunately his case is being misused in a wildly dishonest way as a wedge behind which mentally ill men who are completely male in all genetic and phenotypical respects can invade women’s spaces. An extremely rare genetic abnormality is being hijacked to privilege and empower severe mental illness.
I think I previously read that this person was actually born as a female.
Why are men running against women?
Then when is a real journalist going to ask why she’s not trying to get a spot on the mens team?
Yes, I did read it. Multiple times. There is nothing in there to suggest it has female sex organs.
I follow track/field closely and thought the same as you until last week.
My basis was never seeing her compete internationally in the Diamond League which is under IAAF rules. I’ve only seen her compete domestically. I assumed IAAF would not allow it and the trans label meant born male and obv she looks the part.
The announcers using the they/them during this race was like nails on a chalkboard.
I was very pleasantly surprised as most of the Olympic qualifiers thanked God and were proud Americans.
It’s just all so stupid and silly at this point.
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So stoopid that I stopped reading at ‘they’....
Is “it” related to “Bad Chad” Hiltz?
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