That’s a sprint event. To finish 11 seconds (nearly 0.6kph) faster than the next best rider is an ass whipping. How this meets the organisers ‘play fair’ creed I don’t know.
I am waiting for the tipping point. So far the TIMs dominating in women’s sports have either been at the collegiate level or in less mainstream sports.
The IOC and international sporting bodies backed themselves into a corner when they made rules allowing Caster Semenya and other males with certain DSDs to compete as women. Once male athletes with functioning testes and testosterone receptors were allowed to compete as women because they were literally “misgendered” at birth, there was no way to keep other males with testes and functioning testosterone receptors out of the women’s category.
@4: I believe Caster Semenya was properly identified as male at birth, and treated as such through his teenage years. Only at some point in his teens was the narrative invented that he is a “woman with naturally high testosterone”, so that he could compete in women’s sports.
A tipping point? If no women register for events. That’s a lot to ask but a strike might finally make the point. Or they could have A Dumbledore’s Army secret race society with no males allowed.
I believe Caster Semenya was properly identified as male at birth, and treated as such through his teenage years. Only at some point in his teens was the narrative invented that he is a “woman with naturally high testosterone”, so that he could compete in women’s sports
It seems like this — which supposedly “never happens” — happens several times a month now.
That’s a sprint event. To finish 11 seconds (nearly 0.6kph) faster than the next best rider is an ass whipping. How this meets the organisers ‘play fair’ creed I don’t know.
But of course, no one can do “woman athlete” like a man.
/sarcasm off
I am waiting for the tipping point. So far the TIMs dominating in women’s sports have either been at the collegiate level or in less mainstream sports.
The IOC and international sporting bodies backed themselves into a corner when they made rules allowing Caster Semenya and other males with certain DSDs to compete as women. Once male athletes with functioning testes and testosterone receptors were allowed to compete as women because they were literally “misgendered” at birth, there was no way to keep other males with testes and functioning testosterone receptors out of the women’s category.
@4: I believe Caster Semenya was properly identified as male at birth, and treated as such through his teenage years. Only at some point in his teens was the narrative invented that he is a “woman with naturally high testosterone”, so that he could compete in women’s sports.
A tipping point? If no women register for events. That’s a lot to ask but a strike might finally make the point. Or they could have A Dumbledore’s Army secret race society with no males allowed.
GW @5
Interesting! Sources?