Caster Semenya lost the fight to not have to reduce testosterone levels in order to compete in races where Semenya remains dominant (women's 800-meter). This is a start, great news for the integrity of women's sports to not have cheaters in the events.
Of course this goes way beyond the Semenya case. Because of the transgender lies justifying cheating by men by pretending to be women, this cheating is at some point going to have to be legally barred everywhere. By allowing "transgender" athletes to compete against women, organizations that allow this travesty have basically turned such events into coed events where women have no chance against males because of the vast physiological differences between them.
It's not just testosterone that is the biggest difference between men and women in terms of athletic competition. The most crucial difference is hemoglobin because men are typically larger, have more blood in the body, and have larger hearts and lungs making men's bodies more efficient in terms of aerobic fitness. Lowering testosterone or taking a bunch of estrogen doesn't alter this or much else. If you are born male, you remain one the rest of your life. Sex is not an "identity" in your head. Y-chromosome athletes (not talking about women who have given birth to male babies who might have a few y-chromosome cells but otherwise obviously female by virtue of giving birth) have NO business competing in athletic events against women. It is cheating.
The problem here is whether individuals with high testosterone levels have xx chromosomes to begin with or xy. Semenya's medical records have never been formally released. However, Semenya's lawyers have admitted their client is indeed a biological male. In this case, it is open and shut. There are a lot more issues here than just testosterone levels.
Sports have to have integrity or they are not sports at all. Elite competition is not a right. If Semenya doesn't like the court's decision, then Semenya can go into another line of work. This ruling is a victory for female athletes.
Semenya was barred from competition for months and subjected to humiliating sex tests before returning to the track. It is not known for certain what procedures, if any, were undergone by Semenya, who won a silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics. Nor could it be verified, as reported in 2009 in The Daily Telegraph of Australia, that Semenya had internal testes and three times the testosterone level of a typical woman.
Semenya has expressed concern through her lawyers that a rule governing natural testosterone levels continues “the offensive practice of intrusive surveillance and judging of women’s bodies, which has historically haunted women’s sports.”
Bullshit, Caster. You sound like an entitled male who thinks the rules don't apply to you. By the way, why don't you release all your medical records if you have nothing to hide?
This is over. When you are declared a biological male by your own atttorneys, then you have no business competing in women's sports at all. The arbitrators shouldn't have even given you an option, Caster. Just take the ill-gotten awards and go back home and do something else.
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