You do realize that if Semenya’s brain chemistry made her identify as male this would never be an issue right? It’s because elite female atheltes do not perform at the same level as their male counterparts. That’s a physiological fact of life. Compare the mens and women’s world records at any event (whose dominant…

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,…