Sex, Sports, and Caster Semenya

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Lauren McLaughlin's brilliant blog entry: http://bit.ly/hnXR9
Our community lives at http://www.nerdfighters.com
Correction: In Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, the person is XY chromosomally but has a female external appearance. For more info: http://bit.ly/5oeij
In which John discusses track star Caster Semenya, sports, sexual identification, internal testes, the ambiguity inherent to life, and the arbitrary rules of a sport that cannot accommodate such ambiguity.

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sports is like life ( 8 months ago by KTentacles)

sports is like life

"Sour grapes" are ... ( 8 months ago by regularguy5mb)

"Sour grapes" are like life.

Humans are either ... ( 8 months ago by LiberdadeHedonista)

Humans are either male or female. If you have at least one Y chromosome, then you are male (XY, XXY or XYY). Otherwise, you are female (X, XX, XXX or XXXX).
Some males, with certain conditions, can legally participate in female sports competitions, no problem. But many others use the pretext that they have ovaries, uterus and vagina to participate, which is not related to the requirements. Aka cheating.

Then what about ... ( 8 months ago by cannonbulk)

Then what about those with a perfect XXXY

XXXY, XXXXY and ... ( 8 months ago by LiberdadeHedonista)

XXXY, XXXXY and XXYY are also males, yes.
Some may have medical conditions that allow them to participate in female competitions, but not necessarily.
If they try to deceive sport judges with ecographies, pretending they are females, they are cheating.
However, men whose Y chromosomes do not work are female in practice, so they should be treated as women, by international laws (no compulsory military service, legal marriage with men, even in countries where it is usually not allowed, etc).

If Caster Semenya ... ( 7 months ago by Barca10Ronaldinho)

If Caster Semenya is a woman, then this bespectacled shit is man.

@LiberdadeHedonista ... ( 7 months ago by marly100)

@LiberdadeHedonista I hate to break it to you but sexual and gender dyadism is a myth. There is a whole spectrum of sex and gender, just look at God's angels. They're neither male nor female, so God thought, "Why not humans, besides the whole Male or Female thing is getting a little redundent. Then God created the Third Sex." :) Just a theory on God's creation of intersex and transfolk

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You're only ... ( 5 months ago by DrMatticulous)

You're only partially correct, there is a much more complicated process going on for sex determination. First you described the genotypic sex determination although incomplete. On the short arm of the Y chromosome there is a "sex determining region". This region is needed for there to be a male. Besides the genotype of a person there is a phenotype to consider, that being the manifestation of the genes a person has.

Sometimes the genes ... ( 5 months ago by DrMatticulous)

Sometimes the genes expressed are defective in some way. This can lead to a different than expected phenotype, like a person with an XY chromosomes that are phenotypically women. Also, translocation of the sex determining region on the Y chromosome to an X chromosome can give a person an XX genotype with a male phenotype.

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Hey John - It may ... ( 3 months ago by lalkidar)

Hey John - It may be Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome... but the reports did differ. i read the claim that she has no female sex organs. Personally, I think we should not have the rule so complex for any games....

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