Some female runners with naturally high testosterone levels will have to race against men or change events unless they take medication, under new rules issued by athletics’ governing body. The rules, which start on 1 November 2018, would apply to women who race in track events from 400m up to the mile.
The IAAF believes the new measures will stop women with high testosterone levels gaining a competitive advantage.
Olympic 800m champion Caster Semenya is expected to be among those affected.
The South African runner has previously been asked to undertake gender testing by athletics chiefs but no results have ever officially been made public. [I]https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/43890575[/I]
Not quite. Caster Semenya was discovered to be a hermaphrodite, but international condemnation from some busy body "human right"activists, who shouted about her persecution, made the IAAF not to reveal that fact. So “she” is not a woman. Plus, if we’re talking about hormonal imbalance, then “she” will be required to take medicine to balance them hormones to a woman’s level.
On Serena Williams, she’s 100% female, she even gave birth juzi.
This women are singled out because they have manly features, which Williams have .
Just wondering, in her prime, what were Serena Williams level of testosterone?
There are races I watched Semenya lose on purpose. I think she could have won all her races. That said I agree had it continued then more would take up other races and soon there women races would be no more. However let’s have their own races for inclusion. After all sports has always united more than divide people.
I watched Serena break the race barrier in Tennis and the whites weren’t happy. They wanted to complain the same but it was stupid since she just had curves like a full bodies proud African woman. When she gave birth the last bit of opposition ended. In all that time she has won everything in Tennis countless times to be the greatest woman Tennis player ever.
Steroids are testosterone based, synthetic testosterone to be precise. Then we have natural testosterone, which a woman like Serena has than a normal woman thence the masculinity.
If akina Semenya and Nyairera, were making America great, these issues would be non starters.
Anyone remember the sh!t Ben Johnson was taken thru for testing positive on performance enhancement ? He even lost his gold medal.
Then Carl Lewis down the line was busted for the same, and the approach was different.
It’s high time we stand with our own athletes, just the same way US did with Carl Lewis.
What about that plot, that was geared towards ending Kenyan dominance in the mid and long distance runs.
This is different. Semenya has been diagnosed as intersex, meaning she has both male and female organs. E.g. she does not have a uterus but instead has two internal testes.