#Semenya

Stonewall

stonewalluk

Very disappointing decision. Caster won’t be able to run in the Tokyo Olympics unless she alters her body.Content warning: discrimination, racismhttps://olympics.nbcsports.com/2020/09/08/caster-semenya-appeal-track/ The ruling is racist a

Sports Law, Prof Jack Anderson

sportslawMELB

#sportslaw Caster Semenya loses at Swiss supreme court. (Very) basic "initial reaction" thread here, confined to human rights law issues. I leave further (more accurate and contextual) analysis on the

Lachlan Stuart 🌹🗽

Lachlan_Edi

I totally agree with this. It is a tough call and I've little to no time for those who call Caster Semenya a cheat.There is a conflict of rights.The rights

Eleanor Penny

eleanorkpenny

Michael Phelps' body produces half the lactic acid of his average competitors, meaning he can push himself to athletic extremes and recover quickly. He's celebrated for it.https://twitter.com/AP_Sports/status/1303390475261554689 Sem

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therestofus5

Yesterday @stonewalluk went full racist. According to them, when black people have intersex conditions it proves a biological difference (by reframing chromosomal and hormonal differences as RACIAL, for the love

🦎 Alex 🚫

AlexAlicit

The argument involving Semenya and other VSDs/CCSDs of the Y chromosome is a slippery slope. This will be a personal thread detailing my experiences with an original diagnosis of AIS

Bloodybelly 🌕

sugabelly

Caster Semenya is a man and should compete with men.The fact that they thought he was a girl at birth, and socialized him as a girl, doesn’t change the fact

Roger Pielke Jr.

RogerPielkeJr

Decision by Swiss Supreme Court not to revisit CAS decision on Caster Semenya isn't surprising, given the Swiss deference to arbitral decisionsBut is does show a design flaw in int'l

🦎 Alex 🚫

AlexAlicit

We've been down this hill before but I feel we're going to be revisiting it, this will be about the argument involving XY karyotyped DSDs, but particularly the focus is

Kari Dru

KariDru

Lrt: I should go to bed but I'm gonna yell instead.We are all different and many people who are good at things have accidental but inherent physical reasons for said

Ross Tucker

Scienceofsport

Let me share a few thoughts on the latest #Semenya development - her appeal rejected by the Swiss Supreme court, World Athletics policy supported (pretty strongly too). We are planning

Parker Molloy

ParkerMolloy

There are a number of reasons bills like these are wrongheaded. One is that it tries to implement the same kind of one-size-fits-all solution that opponents of trans inclusion claim

Alex Petrovnia, bane of TERFs and anti of fa

AlexPetrovnia

TERF stands for “trans exclusionary radical feminist” and they are a group that basically believe trans people existing threatens feminism and women in general. #TERFs They have an obsession with

Kirsti Miller

KirstiMiller30

Sport isn’t about fairness it is about celebrating people who have refined their unique physiologies to excel in a particular event. That includes very tall people whose unique physiology makes

cherelle

Chero_Malo

Am late to this. But, re: Black Womanhood. Yes, Black Women have always been antithetical to the idea of being a woman and ‘femininity’, and no better is this represented

Colin Wright

SwipeWright

1/ The modern far Left has a political agenda to destroy/deconstruct biological realities under the guise of Social Justice. A common way they go about this is by dishonestly applying

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