from HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 29 Mar 15:31
https://sh.itjust.works/post/57611455
Caster Semenya, the South African two‑time Olympic 800m champion, said on Sunday that the reinstatement by the International Olympic Committee of sex verification tests for the 2028 Los Angeles Games was “a disrespect for women”.
The hyperandrogenic former athlete also expressed disappointment that the measure was taken under the leadership of the new IOC president, Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe.
“For me, personally, for her being a woman coming from Africa, knowing how African women or women in the global south are affected by that, of course, it causes harm,” Semenya said during a Cape Town press conference on the sidelines of a sporting competition.
On Thursday the IOC reinstated genetic testing to determine female sex, starting with the 2028 Olympics, in effect banning transgender athletes and a large number of intersex athletes from women’s sports.
The IOC used chromosomal sex testing between 1968 and the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, before abandoning it in 1999 under pressure from the scientific community, which questioned its effectiveness, and from its own athletes’ commission.
“It came as a failure. And that’s why it was dropped,” Semenya said in Cape Town.
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Do they have to have respect in the first place before they can disrespect?
So how are they going to verify an individuals sex?
It literally says right there in the text of the post.
Genetic testing.
This was expected due to the debate around trans women affecting intersex women. This is a return to norms, ostracizing intersex women and shaming them as “not real women”.
Oh ffs, stop telling me about their sexy bits. Just let everyone do their thing, let us watch it, and let some awesome data visualization nerds pull crazy stats from the results.
You want to bring science into it, then do it, perverts. ‘Who jumped over the highest stick’ is just caveman logic for who generated the most acceleration in a vertical vector per kilogram (or awesome nerds, correct my caveman misunderstanding). Crunch the numbers, dammit, let’s see who really gets the gold!