Well said and spot-on.

On top of all that, she proposes zero solutions. It’s easy to pick on other people’s solutions - I would love to hear what she actually thinks should be done.

There is a very easy answer to this. Have two categories for atheltics, an unrestricted natural T level category (currently considered mens) and a restricted natural T level category (currently considered womens).

XX women do NOT have more than 10 nm of testosterone. That’s the whole point. She is XY, and produces male levels of testosterone, which completely explains her level of performance.

She was not denied the right to compete flat out. With the old testosterone level rule she could either lower her natural T level and compete with women or she could compete with the unrestricted natural T level athletes (men).

I assume she’s freely allowed to compete with men. So what’s the problem? There is a women’s division, which has lesser standards needed in order to medal. To compete in it you have to be a woman. If this is the case, at some point you have to define what a “woman” is. If you don’t want to be tested, you are free to…

Read that article again. It says that the male range is 10 to 30. The limit was set at 10, and she had to take inhibitors to get under the 10. Ergo, she naturally produces male levels of testosterone. She has testes. This is not rocket science.

Because althletes are sorted into male/female groups. There are classes of sports based on weight or age but it’s still the same. If you segregate athletes into physical classifications, then you need to make sure that they fit into that classification otherwise it becomes an unfair advantage. There is no…

“It’s not fair, Semenya has testicles that produce testosterone levels only possessed by men!”

But we don’t segregate based on height, or wingspan. We actually do segregate in olympic events based on gender (rightly so or not).

Those examples are quite simply false equivalency.

They stopped testing chromosomes because there are XY women who are unfairly screened out by that test.

A Y chromosome and testicles isn’t actually arbitrary though, is it?

Caster has undescended testicles ffs, this is not like Phelps. A line has to be drawn somewhere.

Well said. A line has to be made somewhere. That line will never be perfect, and never black and white. But I would rather it be made fair for 99% of the competitors, than for the 1%.

Caster Semenya is not XX. She has a Y chromosome and undescended testicles that are pumping out testosterone. That’s the whole fucking point of the debate, yet it appears nowhere in this article.

This is a complicated and fraught topic, one that deserves a more thoughtful take than the one offered by Ms. Moskovitz. This is not about some cruel effort by men to define and control women’s bodies, as she glibly asserts. It’s about trying to create an environment where women have a chance to compete and succeed,…

If we are going to hold two separate events for men and women, then we have to have some distinct dividing line between who is “a man” and who is “a woman.” It may not be fair to everyone, but you do have to draw a line somewhere.

Oh, go fuck yourself, you rancid pustule.

Can you blame women for having a strong reaction to a story like this? A woman had her hands chopped off and her face slashed by her husband. Most of us have experienced violence, harassment, or sexual assault by men. When ONE commenter expresses extreme despair and hopelessness about the possibility of ever feeling…