Monday, September 28, 2009

Intersex - Semenya

The following was taken from msnbc.com.

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"The concern that women with XY chromosomes have a competitive advantage “is malarkey. We don’t segregate athletes by height,” said Genel, speaking from an international endocrinology conference in New York that has sessions on intersex issues.
Dr. Joe Leigh Simpson, past president of the American College of Medical Genetics and a member of the IAAF panel, agreed: “Any elite athlete ... has a competitive advantage, or otherwise they wouldn’t be an elite athlete.”
Simpson, associate dean at Florida International University, said the issue should be simply whether men are masquerading as women. Semenya is clearly a woman, he said. "

I sit here and read all of this storm over Semenya. What I hear is someone being upset because Semenya WON. It is couced in terms of 'She is not a woman' or 'Unfair advantage'

We dont see the governing bodies testing men that lose for LOW levels testosterone

What an INTOLERANT CULTURE we live in.

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