A Question For The Flist
Aug. 24th, 2009 08:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grav_itySo, flist, you are (mostly) liberal, bleeding heart females. You've exploded over Stargate Universe (rightfully so), and you complained about the finale of Battlestar Galactica for reasons that I don't entirely understand or agree with, but can come to terms with.
You have not said anything about Caster Semenya, and I am wondering what you think.
Background: Caster Semenya is an 800 metre runner from South Africa, who has blasted away a bunch of records and is currently undergoing a gender test to see if she is, in fact, eligible to complete as a woman.
More Background: At the Melbourne Olympics, Tamara Press won the shot put and discus, and was later suspected of not being female. Her gender could not be determined, but testing became mandatory in 1966 and Tamara never competed again. The testing is only for females, and nowadays typically involves evaluation by gynecologists, endocrinologists, psychologists, and internal medicine specialists. (Source) There are also new rules that allow people who have had reassignment surgery to compete as the gender they identify. The IOC discontinued the testing process in 1999 (currently it's being brought up again by the IAAF).
So, flist, how do you feel?
You have not said anything about Caster Semenya, and I am wondering what you think.
Background: Caster Semenya is an 800 metre runner from South Africa, who has blasted away a bunch of records and is currently undergoing a gender test to see if she is, in fact, eligible to complete as a woman.
More Background: At the Melbourne Olympics, Tamara Press won the shot put and discus, and was later suspected of not being female. Her gender could not be determined, but testing became mandatory in 1966 and Tamara never competed again. The testing is only for females, and nowadays typically involves evaluation by gynecologists, endocrinologists, psychologists, and internal medicine specialists. (Source) There are also new rules that allow people who have had reassignment surgery to compete as the gender they identify. The IOC discontinued the testing process in 1999 (currently it's being brought up again by the IAAF).
So, flist, how do you feel?
