Victorian concepts of gender and humanity are out, again.
Victorian concepts of gender and humanity are out, again. I get why everyone thought they were being 'fair', and whatnot, but modern science has moved on a bit and if athletes' own bodies are doing this, they aren't doping, then get over it.
Hyperandrogenism has not suddenly made all "those" people the exclusive gold-medalists. This is bad form and ignorance combined. I'm particularly disgusted that athletes were actually pressured into taking hormone suppressing medications and undergoing internal and external surgical mutilation. Because that has no potential larger and longer term implications for their health and well-being.
This is also chauvinism. They don't 'look' girly enough. Neither, it seems, does Serena Williams, who looks like an athlete and got less endorsements than some world-class but more girly looking tennis players. In addition to being racist, because darker skinned people from not the right parts of the world.
And, oh, my god, the shades of eugenics with the pressuring people into having surgery!! Yep, that's right. An international governing body of sport pressured women into having permanent surgeries. Like this is some kind of standard medical treatment for hyperandrogenism. How is this acceptable while the same countries are supposedly opposing culturally traditional genital mutilation? No, really, read the third and fourth articles. They partially removed their clitoris. WHAT THE H----!!
Super unsportsmanlike and super ungracious behavior from athletes. I know the Olympics are a big deal, but there's no guarantee the people complaining would have won medals.
Unethical and potentially criminal behavior from officials and anyone who supported this "treatment" to allow them to compete. I'd even question the morality of it. Disgusting.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/17/caster-semenya-800m-heat-gender-controversy-rio-olympics
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/23/caster-semenya-olympic-spirit-iaaf-athletes-women
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/naturally-high-testosterone-snares-female-athletes-rio-n631086
http://www.forbes.com/sites/emilywillingham/2016/08/15/women-athletes-gave-up-gonads-and-more-to-continue-olympic-competition/#4bbfe5007715
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/17/caster-semenya-800m-heat-gender-controversy-rio-olympics
Hyperandrogenism has not suddenly made all "those" people the exclusive gold-medalists. This is bad form and ignorance combined. I'm particularly disgusted that athletes were actually pressured into taking hormone suppressing medications and undergoing internal and external surgical mutilation. Because that has no potential larger and longer term implications for their health and well-being.
This is also chauvinism. They don't 'look' girly enough. Neither, it seems, does Serena Williams, who looks like an athlete and got less endorsements than some world-class but more girly looking tennis players. In addition to being racist, because darker skinned people from not the right parts of the world.
And, oh, my god, the shades of eugenics with the pressuring people into having surgery!! Yep, that's right. An international governing body of sport pressured women into having permanent surgeries. Like this is some kind of standard medical treatment for hyperandrogenism. How is this acceptable while the same countries are supposedly opposing culturally traditional genital mutilation? No, really, read the third and fourth articles. They partially removed their clitoris. WHAT THE H-
Super unsportsmanlike and super ungracious behavior from athletes. I know the Olympics are a big deal, but there's no guarantee the people complaining would have won medals.
Unethical and potentially criminal behavior from officials and anyone who supported this "treatment" to allow them to compete. I'd even question the morality of it. Disgusting.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/17/caster-semenya-800m-heat-gender-controversy-rio-olympics
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/23/caster-semenya-olympic-spirit-iaaf-athletes-women
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/naturally-high-testosterone-snares-female-athletes-rio-n631086
http://www.forbes.com/sites/emilywillingham/2016/08/15/women-athletes-gave-up-gonads-and-more-to-continue-olympic-competition/#4bbfe5007715
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/aug/17/caster-semenya-800m-heat-gender-controversy-rio-olympics
I may have buried the lede, a bit. Let me iterate. THEY PERFORMED SCIENTIFICALLY BASELESS GENITAL MUTILATING SURGERY ON WOMEN WHO WERE PRESSURED INTO IT.
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