Yes, the men's handball player Hannah Mouncey who is now playing women's aussie rules football conflating intersex with transgender again.
www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/apr/29/caster-semenya-the-obvious-target-in-iaaf-changes-that-only-create-a-legal-minefield
Hannah seems to be rather poorly informed.
"Semenya has hyperandrogenism, a condition where the body produces more testosterone than would be usual."
Semenya produces a normal male amount of testosterone
" Should we now do away with 7-foot basketball players as well?"
The only female 7-foot basketball player ever died in 2011 from a heart attack, aged 37, so this seems in rather poor taste. There are at least a dozen CURRENT male 7-foot basketball players in only the US NBA, and the shortest male players are around 6-foot.
"Make no mistake, the IAAF’s new policy, stating that a woman must have a testosterone level of 5.0 nanomols per litre of blood will almost certainly be ruled illegal the minute it is put before any form of human rights commission; although with the IAAF based in Monaco it’s hard to know what the process for that to happen is."
Are you really incapable of looking this up? Monaco is a member of the Council of Europe and signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights.
"It’s fair to say though that if Athletics Australia tried to enforce such a rule to domestic competition it would be highly illegal once challenged federally. "
Highly illegal why? Surely you must be capable of providing some explanation?
"Complicating matters further would be different state laws, in the ACT it is illegal to exclude trans or intersex athletes based on such grounds, "
The ACT Discrimination Act says
'Part 3 does not make unlawful discrimination on the ground of sex
in relation to the exclusion of people of one sex from participation
in any competitive sporting activity in which the strength, stamina
or physique of competitors is relevant. '
Are you really telling us the law separates people based on objective physical sex but then says they can wiggle back on the basis of arbitrary 'gender identity'. Citation needed.
"while in Victoria the current laws would likely provide enough wriggle room to be enforced."
the Victorian Equal Opportunity Act states " athletes can be discriminated against based on their sex or gender "if strength, stamina or physique is relevant"" But Hannah couldn't be arsed to explain that.
"She refuses to suppress her testosterone, and so she should."
Got any subeditors ?!
"Despite not competing in athletics, as a trans athlete these new rules wouldn’t actually affect me in the slightest if I was - this is something which largely effects intersex athletes alone"
No, these rules ONLY Affect (hello, subeditors!??!) people with specific intersex conditions in specific athletic disciplines. Not transgender athletes at all.
"The IAAF has clearly decided that a drop in testosterone significantly effects performance"
Yes, they provided studies to support that. DId you even bother to read? And SUBEDITORS? Do people actually pay for The Guardian?
" so it only stands to reason that when a trans athlete whose testosterone is suppressed finally reaches the top level of the sport they will allow them to compete without question"
eh, what? Why are you conflating intersex with transgender you outrageous person?
"For while society seems to understand the effects of what would happen if you reduced an intersex athlete like Semenya’s testosterone by only a fraction"
'A fraction'? I believe we are talking about an 85% reduction.
" people still seem to think a trans athlete who produces no testosterone would somehow maintain their previous abilities."
Uh, no. A reduction in abilities for sure. But ignoring the effective decades of 'doping' using male levels of testosterone. Female athletes have ALWAYS had low testosterone. Except for the ones who doped.
" I can’t for a second imagine the IAAF taking such action against a male runner with naturally occurring elevated testosterone."
It's not 'naturally elevated testosterone', let's not beat about the bush, we are talking about a normal male level of testosterone. But in an athlete competing in a female category.
" Nor can I imagine them doing it to a white runner for that matter."
Mate, do some fucking research.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Jos%C3%A9_Mart%C3%ADnez-Pati%C3%B1o
"Even if on an unconscious level, racism and more so in this instance, sexism, is clearly very much still a factor in how certain athletes are treated."
You're a 6'3" tall, 100kg, white, biological male. Those things have nothing to do with you.
"If the specific targeting of Semenya couldn’t be clearer, the fact that the IAAF ignored research that showed other events were more likely to benefit from elevated testosterone than the 400, 800 and 1500m can only seal the deal. Hammer throw was one such event, however the IAAF chose to not impose any restrictions on those athletes for reasons only known to them."
This is not true. The study did NOT find out that one event was more likely to benefit from testosterone, what they found is that certain events had a statistical correlation between between higher testosterone and better performance, including 400m, 400m h, 800m, and hammer. To say that hammer is more likely to benefit is NOT something you can show from the data. It's true that they haven't restricted the hammer, however there were no XY athletes in the hammer, but there were in the 800m.
This ruling is about how to allow XY women to compete in sport. As there are no XY women in the hammer, restrictions seem a bit pointless.