The Obsession With Caster Semenya’s Body Was Racist From The Very Beginning

From the article:

A week before the 2012 Olympics, a group of researchers and academics gathered for the International Convention on Science, Education, and Medicine in Sport in Glasgow, just over 400 miles north of London, where the Games were being held. One of those athletes was South African runner Caster Semenya, who burst onto the scene in 2009 to win the women’s 800 meters in scorching time. Almost immediately, competitors, coaches, federations and the media began questioning whether the then 18-year-old athlete was a woman, and whether she should be allowed to run against women.

Source: The Obsession With Caster Semenya’s Body Was Racist From The Very Beginning

This sheds some light on the truly horrific standards and “medical” inspections women have had to undergo to prove they are women, when they are in fact cisgendered women. This obsession with testosterone levels in women doesn’t even have a scientific consensus on what normal testosterone looks like in cis women. These medical inspections included looking for an enlarged clitoris. How fucked up is that? That clitoral size is the most important trait for determining whether a female athlete with naturally higher testosterone levels has a performance advantage.

What the ever loving fuck? the guy fronting this is a quack, but one with power to fuck with women’s lives.

This doesn’t even take into account that there have been so many exceptions to these rules that literally the only women effected is a black woman.