The NCAA has not stated that there is a requirement for her testosterone be suppressed “lower than levels naturally occurring in woman (up to 3.0 nmol/L).” In fact, there is no minimum level and we aren’t even sure if their is any verification. Medical physicist Joanna Harper, who has served as an adviser to the IOC…
What Diana conveniently fails to tell you is
1) Caster Semenya has XY chromosomes. As a result, she has testes (internal) but no ovaries. How her entire article could fail to mention those important facts is beyond me. The reality is we have to separate men’s and women’s sports into two categories if we are going to…
What do you do about a 7'0" tall trans woman? You think that’s fair for the WNBA?
The author acts like people critical of Semenya are only racists/sexists, writing “he used a white northern European lens to determine the femininity of a black woman from the Global South.” Sadly, the author ignores the reality of the situation - Semenya is XY chromosonally
Admittedly I’m an Orioles Fan but this seems more likely to be a case of an agent, who told his client to turn down a one year 16 million deal but now signs for 2 years and 17, covering his behind.
This is Rojo. .
I actually loved this piece by Young. Epstein himself would probably admit the following paragraph is true:
“The incredibly in-depth reporting by David Epstein and subsequent epic response from Salazar are perhaps the perfect illustration of how “clean sport” is fundamentally about perception. Epstein’s…