allezfred
In A Fake Snowball Fight
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First Diamond League tonight and Caster Semenya is a late entry.
First Diamond League tonight and Caster Semenya is a late entry.
You can't blame her for getting in as many events as she can before she is subject to the testosterone restrictions, poor woman!
Poor woman? She got to compete for years with an unfair advantage over everyone else and win a boatload of titles she will keep forever.
It is not her fault she was born with more testosterone than other women.
Would you take away Phelp's swimming medals because he has the unfair advantage of being genetically different?
(He doesn't build up lactic acid in the same way as other swimmers, so he has a physical advantage that makes him invincible.)
It is a tough decision, hard when you are born female to be told because of a genetic advantage, you cannot compete!
It isn't just her anymore, there were 3 women dominating in the womens 800 event alone in 2016 and 2017 who had the same genetic advantages. Something had to be done.
Fair point!
I don’t think it is though.
WADA etc is trying to fight doping and then you are telling athletes who were born and raised women in a tightly defined category of events that because they naturally produce too much of a certain hormone we are going to force them to drug themselves to reduce this hormone.
In any case, judgejud... I mean “vanillashake” has form on this topic.
It can be argued either way. Its a difficult issue to resolve.
It is most definitely not black or white and if these athletes happened to be transgender I might have a different opinion. It’s the idea of forcing someone to take drugs that are medically unnecessary really doesn’t sit well with me.
I will be there the last two days, Oct 5. & 6. And will cheer to everyone not using doping.Update on the Christian Coleman situation
Personally, I’m excited about this World Championships. I wonder how many surprise medals we’ll see being that it’s so late this time.