FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 18,2019 file photo, South Africa's runner Caster Semenya, current 800-meter Olympic gold medalist and world champion, arrives for the first day of her hearing at the international Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS, in Lausanne, Switzerland. Caster Semenya will find out Wednesday, May 1, 2019 if she has won her appeal against IAAF rules to curb female runners' high natural levels of testosterone.
In a landmark judgment, the court said the IAAF’s proposed rules on athletes with “differences of sex development ” are discriminatory but should be applied. Still, the CAS panel “strongly encouraged” the IAAF to note its concerns when it applies the rules — which the judges believe might have to be modified in future to be fair.
However, the judges want the IAAF to apply the rules only up to the 800 because the evidence was not clear that women with hyperandrogenism have a competitive advantage in the 1,500.
This is a direct result of trans activists pushing to allow trans women to compete in female sports categories.
If that’s the case, then ALL athletes should be tested
You'll notice that not a single male athlete has ever been forced to suppress their hormonal levels in order to compete.
THIS IS CRAZY, THATS DOPING, ANY WAY YOU SPIN IT!!
This is so messed up
If you are born with an advantage, is it fair to participate in something where everyone is at a lesser advantage? Example: someone who has no disabilities expects to participate in the Paralympic Games? If these games are to be fair (life isn’t) there needs to be rules.
Horrifying
Now do Michael Phelps....
Time to test them all or ban the so called sport
A man with 2 testes isn't a woman no matter how inconvenient it may be for his career
She was born this way. Wow!
She's female. So what if she has higher levels of testosterone. She's gifted. How dare you suggest she has to suppress that
It's a man.
I'm guessing phelps better cut his hands off if he wants to compete. It's not fair him having longer arms than everyone else.
how is this even real?
The way God made her isn’t good enough for mere mortals who preach God’s word”. I think their issue is with God, and not her.
Why would a dude have to worry about that?
LynseySharp3 you came in SIXTH place when you cried crocodile tears over this, you would have still not medaled if Caster wasn’t competing. I hope you’re happy with what a mockery you’ve made of yourself, & how difficult you’ve made life for a woman more talented than you
in the most respectful way? Is she trans? if yes, she shouldn't even be competing on female only events, if not, then why is she being submitted to this if she's not doping?(and if she was, why isn't she banned)
We celebrate men with physical advantages that are natural. So why should we not do the same with this woman? Why is this different?
I once watched this woman speak. All I can say is she sure don't sound like a woman!
Yes, now lets focus on what transgender males to females are doing to female sports for real women! This lunacy must stop.
Yes, now lets focus on how transgender males to females are doing to real women's sports!
Stunning and brave
How much time and energy have we spent over the last 40 years Trying to get drugs and doping out of sports? Performance suppressing drugs should be no more legal than performance enhancing drugs.
The amount of idiots going “Well it’s a man...” This is a CIS WOMAN. Despite how transphobic some people sound, this is not a issue of a trans woman being asked to do this. It’s a CIS woman being asked. If you don’t see the problem with this something is wrong with you.
iaaforg We’ll be awaiting your ruling requiring Low-T men to take supplements to “maintain the integrity” You all really disgraced your sport on this one. Shame
Lol
TwumOfficial come see nonsense and a stupid ruling.
Is “she” really a female? Or a biological male? Because if she’s a biological male, then she shouldn’t be competing against females. It’s not that hard really.
This is the first reasonable, rational, scientific discussion of how to define female in the sports world. Hope this sort of reasoned thinking continues.
Stupid
This is extremely fucked up on so many levels
How do they know that her testosterone levels are natural?
Fuk that Olympic shit that’s just white people mad they can’t win but they would let s tranny fight woman. This all have to do with white privilege. White can cheat all they long and it’s all good. Whites hate natural Occurring things
This is silly
Everything about this decision, and the rule in question, is absolute horseshit. Yes, she has a significant competitive advantage. What are they alleging makes such an advantage 'fair' or 'unfair'?
There’s guidelines. You have to respect them. Women that have higher testosterone levels have an advantage. She has a hormonal disorder & because of her health she should treat it.
Can anyone provide Semenyas exact testosterone level?
I was sore about losing to Caster Semenya. But this decision against her is wrong | Madeleine Pape
This is flawed on all levels.
Great news. Women's sport saved.
Bullshit. Michael Phelps body gave him an advantage over other swimmers but we celebrate him. This is no different.
Don't do it!
Wow. This goes beyond doping. The ruling requires her to anti-dope: take drugs to reduce naturally occurring testosterone.
Imagine being born a female and training your whole life for the Olympics only to be beat by this guy
'Her'
Hey, look at that face, SHE is a MAN. I agree with the CAS
Absolutely the right decision. Well done IAAF
This is stupid. She was born a woman and that's the way she is.
The fuck
This is precedent-setting and a very interesting foray into the world of disability, accommodation & acceptance. I've been pondering this b/c my child has ADHD and is very (hyper)active in her classes. Should she have to be medicated in order to participate or should she sit out?
So it’s legal for her to take anti hormone suppression but it’s illegal for her to have a naturally high levels of testosterone? This makes no sense.
This is a sick injustice. To be singled out and treated like this is an outrage. They would not even try to treat her like this if she was an American.
Just make a freak olympics already, all sports are gonna lose credibility!
many top athletes are born with physical advantages. this ruling is based on bigotry, not on science.
Another he/she destroying women track and field!
Will a male athlete who looks like a female be asked to medicate to be more male in other to compete with males? What is wrong with u ppl huh?
iaaforg Totally 100% correct and only just decision by the court. Millions of women in sport will give a sigh of relief as this will hopefully also protect their events against transgenders and 'men' that just decide to be (and participate as ) women!
The insanity of the liberal anti-God religion
I am so enraged right now.
Born a man, is a man.
That's fair
Damn bro.
This is hard. I feel for her because this is just something she was born with, but, on the other the hand, the fact that she has unsually higher level of testerone gives her an advantage over others who don’t. The fact they want her to taper her testerone then disadvantages her.
Everyone saying she is trans, is incorrect. Some women have naturally higher levels of testosterone. I myself am one of them, I have PCOS. Most of you are just transphobic pieces of shite anyway, who want to invalidate people's existence because they don't fit in with your view
I'm pretty sure that's Deion Sanders.
I think that’s great news.
She’s a man that’s why
Can't wait to see her in the next swimsuit edition of Sports Illustrated
Freak
Sad that the courts had to determine this. commonsense
A true champ will win against all odds... Caster will show the haters...
This is absolutely not right.
That's a real kick in the teeth for all the feminists that say girls/women are equal to boys/men. Case in point we're not....
Feel for her but I also feel for the women she competes against that have normal levels in their bodies & couldn't compete on a level playing field. Yes, she hasn't been taking anything artificial & I get that BUT if another competitor took it to the same level she'd be a cheat.
That's a dude can't no one tell me different .
Good
His wife will be gutted,where's Crocodile Dundee when you need him?
Let’s all sit back and watch women’s sports be completely ruined by men that couldn’t hang competing against other men!
If this story is accurate this is an absurd ruling. It’s illegal to take performance enhancement drugs but OK to take performance reduction drugs? ArbitraryAndMalicious
That makes no sense. She actually has a medical condition; she's not trans. Yet, they have no problems with biological real men playing against women...so long as that man claims to be a woman. She should tell them she identifies as female (as she is) and they can shove off.
This is bullshit
Wait.. if it has to “suppress” it’s testosterone, then ITS NOT A “HER” or a “SHE”. It’s a “HIM” and a “HE”... And also... f*cking EW.
Good
'medicate to suppress his testosterone levels if he wants to defend the womens world title in September in Qatar'. There, from xed it for you.
Couldn’t hack it against men so he changed sex. Poor sportsmanship if you ask me....
On that logic, geniuses with above 120 iq shouldn’t attend the same schools as us with dd date iq’s.
And yet men who decide they want to be women can compete in women’s events. What a twisted world we live in now.....
She is an actual woman, if she had just claimed to be transgender all would be ok.
This is disgusting.
Excellent.
What an embarrassment
Terrible
That is doping.
Semen-ya. You’re kidding me. 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣💥💥💥
Why. They about to have transgender folks compete, what difference does it make
YoFermina creo que te va a interesar este caso! 🤦🏻♂️
Should Michael Phelps's extremely long arms have been shortened in fairness to others?
Finally levelled the playing field for white people.
*his
They need to start calling the women competition 'FEMALE ONLY' and should be based on DNA and testosterone test. While the men is OPEN competition to anyone who wants to compete.
I don’t understand this, they want her to take meds for her testosterone levels, but they want to let trans men compete with women and viceversa doesn’t make any sense
It's a dude...I mean, are you fucking kidding me?
Just say you’re a woman, who wants to be a dude, who wants to be a woman. Then the PC police will let her compete.
She should be able to compete as how she is. Terrible decision.
She is a female with abnormally high levels of testosterone. All she seems to want to do is compete. Poor lady.
Where are all the GOD made no mistakes people at now? Comments looking quiet? You gonna sit silent while they make a mockery of this woman for her natural genetics?
reaping the whirlwind of confused society. Is this evidence of progress or sophistication? In a multi-sex society how do athletes like Caster be seen to be treated fairly? Can this be reduced to sports fairness without crossing boundaries of discrimination
Atleast someone is still sane in this screwed up world, even if it is the Olympics.
This is bullshit.
Let her compete with the men
I disagree with the CAS. An unusually tall athlete for instance will not be asked to lose a few inches in order to compete in the 100 m
Good
Medicate for what? Her case is nature ingested. For ing her to comply in a fake world for what? She should go to Human Rights court to uphold creation!
But transgenders can compete in the group they choose to identify with? WTF? This woman - what ever your view - has gone through invasive medical procedures to prove she is what the medical world consider female. Disgusting Olympics will be gone in years if this continues.
Well, testosterone is basically steroids, so...
Good, quite right too. Level playing field for all.
Humanity sucks
If you want to be called a woman you will treated as such.
That’s a real kick in the bollox for the poor girl
Go to Hell!
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