The Semenya Rule
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Semenya has got some new competition.
Stick a fork in womens Olympics.
Transgender atheletes to be allowed to compete as the other sex in the Olympics WITHOUT having gender reassignment surgery
The International Olympic Committee received proposed guidelines at its 'Consensus Meeting on Sex Reassignment and Hyperandrogenism'
The policy change would allow transgender athletes to compete without having gender reassignment surgery
It would allow transgender athletes to compete after one year of hormone replacement therapy and no surgery is required
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@Salacious-Crumb said in The Semenya Rule:
Semenya has got some new competition.
Stick a fork in womens Olympics.
Transgender atheletes to be allowed to compete as the other sex in the Olympics WITHOUT having gender reassignment surgery
The International Olympic Committee received proposed guidelines at its 'Consensus Meeting on Sex Reassignment and Hyperandrogenism'
The policy change would allow transgender athletes to compete without having gender reassignment surgery
It would allow transgender athletes to compete after one year of hormone replacement therapy and no surgery is required
This is a good development - there should be one category for Olympics: Citius, Altius, Fortius. So women, trans and disabled people can participate by watching from the stands.
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@antipodean said in The Semenya Rule:
@Salacious-Crumb said in The Semenya Rule:
Semenya has got some new competition.
Stick a fork in womens Olympics.
Transgender atheletes to be allowed to compete as the other sex in the Olympics WITHOUT having gender reassignment surgery
The International Olympic Committee received proposed guidelines at its 'Consensus Meeting on Sex Reassignment and Hyperandrogenism'
The policy change would allow transgender athletes to compete without having gender reassignment surgery
It would allow transgender athletes to compete after one year of hormone replacement therapy and no surgery is required
This is a good development - there should be one category for Olympics: Citius, Altius, Fortius. So women, trans and disabled people can participate by watching from the stands.
the way the Greeks intended
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@mariner4life naked and smeared in Olive Oil?
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@taniwharugby said in The Semenya Rule:
@mariner4life naked and smeared in Olive Oil?
I believe that's the prize awaiting a Spartan.
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@taniwharugby said in The Semenya Rule:
@mariner4life naked and smeared in Olive Oil?
whatever blows your hair back
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@mariner4life said in The Semenya Rule:
whatever blows your hair back
Spartans bro (supposedly)
when I ran on original track I did so fully clothed
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@NightmareHitter said in Are you watching the death rattle of all authentic sports?:
Are the olympics still going well though?
Women who are men winning 100m sprint titles cant be good?
Whos the troon who won the 100m ? I missed that one.
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@jegga said in Are you watching the death rattle of all authentic sports?:
@NightmareHitter said in Are you watching the death rattle of all authentic sports?:
Are the olympics still going well though?
Women who are men winning 100m sprint titles cant be good?
Whos the troon who won the 100m ? I missed that one.
South African athlete Caster Folau-Semanya but I think it was more the 400m and 800m
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@Nevorian said in Are you watching the death rattle of all authentic sports?:
@jegga said in Are you watching the death rattle of all authentic sports?:
@NightmareHitter said in Are you watching the death rattle of all authentic sports?:
Are the olympics still going well though?
Women who are men winning 100m sprint titles cant be good?
Whos the troon who won the 100m ? I missed that one.
South African athlete Caster Folau-Semanya but I think it was more the 400m and 800m
I posted earlier they've finally told her to sort out the levels of testosterone her internal testicles produce. About time too, but she doesn't really count as a full on troon tough
https://ewn.co.za/2019/05/01/semenya-loses-court-challenge-against-iaaf-testosterone-rules
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I've always viewed Semenye"s situation as different to say, that transgender weight lifter that a stupid New Zealand let represent us in comm. games.
As far as I know semenye wasn't born with actual meat and two veg.
To hold her to same standards as a born bloke isn't helping clear up this muddy problem imo.
But then again, the gender is a construct people don't actually want to find a solution to this problem, they just want exposure and publicity
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@Siam said in The Semenya Rule:
I've always viewed Semenye"s situation as different to say, that transgender weight lifter that a stupid New Zealand let represent us in comm. games.
As far as I know semenye wasn't born with actual meat and two veg.
To hold her to same standards as a born bloke isn't helping clear up this muddy problem imo.
But then again, the gender is a construct people don't actually want to find a solution to this problem, they just want exposure and publicity
Yeah she's intersex, so any limitations they put on her from a testosterone POV should not apply to Trans people, as Trans females have a raft of other biological advantages over women that go way beyond just testostorone.
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@Siam said in The Semenya Rule:
I've always viewed Semenye"s situation as different to say, that transgender weight lifter that a stupid New Zealand let represent us in comm. games.
As far as I know semenye wasn't born with actual meat and two veg.
To hold her to same standards as a born bloke isn't helping clear up this muddy problem imo.
But then again, the gender is a construct people don't actually want to find a solution to this problem, they just want exposure and publicity
She has no womb or ovaries but has internal testes . That’s not her fault obviously but it does give her a biological advantage.
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bit of a different one really...forcing someone to take meds to compete doesnt seem right.
Was on the road a bit yesterday and listening to the debate on RS, TBH I'm on the fence...
is there a limit for male testosterone levels to be under?
Are female athletes with unaturally low testosterone levels allowed to take testosterone to get up to acceptable levels?
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@taniwharugby said in The Semenya Rule:
bit of a different one really...forcing someone to take meds to compete doesnt seem right.
Was on the road a bit yesterday and listening to the debate on RS, TBH I'm on the fence...
is there a limit for male testosterone levels to be under?
Are female athletes with unaturally low testosterone levels allowed to take testosterone to get up to acceptable levels?
I think she should have to take meds . Part of me says that because of the shitty way the governing body in South Africa behaved when her issue came to light but also because she has advantages over a woman in the way her body is built .
I’d put money on the Chinese using CRISPR to produce athletes in a generation and I don’t know how you stop that .
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@jegga yeah, fair enough if she has the other advantages males have then it's not fair. They need to be very strict on the guidelines for women's sport. If these people want to compete then it had to be against the men.
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@Rocky-Rockbottom said in The Semenya Rule:
sorry for my stone age views on this but wft. She's half fucken dude. The other chicks in the race must say "what the fucking low-fat arse is going on around here? why do we have to race against this she-dude chick fella who waltzes in and then just fucken runs the fuck away from us? how the hell is this fair?"
but then again, would there be a problem if she came 3rd to last in every race? who would care.
hook up some kind if tweener race category I say
I used to watch Adam ruins everything on YouTube till I watched him make an absolute arse of himself on Rogan over Semenya . I’m not 100% sure what the right answer is here and she’s done nothing wrong but she surely has physiological advantages over a woman who doesn’t have testes.
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It's simple, you have strict requirements of what a woman is and have two categories; open and womans.
Semenya and trans woman can compete in open.
There is no definition of a woman that includes having or having had testicles.
And remember this is just sport, this isn't life or death. A tiny fraction of society is affected, and may have to do something else in life.
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@jegga I dont think anyone comes out of this looking good.
They were talking on the radio yesterday about possible breach of human rights forcing her to take drugs to compete?
How common is her 'condition/advantage'?
what about other natural anomolies?
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Personally, I don't like this ruling as it feels like it was brought in against her; it is limited to events in which testosterone benefits are less important in comparison to others - it's the Semenya rule. I agree with @No-Quarter that it should be viewed completely differently to transgender athletes.
Also, like @Kirwan I take the same approach - but get to the a different conclusion; it's just sports. She was born with female bits, raised as a girl, and sadly appears to have had a shit thing happen to her. If she is intersex, she's not having babies etc. etc. but she does have a natural advantage of being a fucking machine at running.
I'd be happy if they brought in in over all sports, with a time lag to provide all currently competing athletes with an opportunity to change over a period of time (e.g., one year). Then I might feel like it is about sport rather than one athlete.
Olympics to change policies and allow transgender athletes to compete
