From Cyclingmum's article.
A second test to determine their testosterone levels was recently done in Rome where the athletes are presently based while setting Europe alight.
And yet we know from people who have studied these regulations, including Ross Tucker who was heavily involve with Caster Semenya, that no 'second' test would be done if these athletes were in fact XX. So, who are you going to believe is purely up to you. A person that is heavily invested in having these athletes compete where the DSDs these athletes are not released to protect their privacy, or professionals with nothing to gain from it.
The star sprinters became the latest African female athletes to be marginalised by World Athletics' controversial rules, which have disqualified South Africa's Caster Semenya, Burundi's Francine Niyonsaba, and Kenya's Margaret Wambui from defending their 800m Olympic medals.
So..... now they are being more honest...
Nigerien sprinter Aminatou Seyni has also been barred from running in her favoured 400 m in Japan, and will have to make do with the 200 m race, like the Namibian duo.
Aminatou Seyni, is also an athlete with a DSD.
www.smh.com.au/sport/dsd-athlete-seyni-banned-from-400m-20191001-p52wq1.html
Namibia will look to ally with nations whose athletes have been marginalised by WA on similar grounds to contest the ban, Xoagub said.
Well, this is great news. Maybe this will force a complete and comprehensive study to be conducted independently of course, that will then remove these ridiculous differences between events. And duplicate the study with transgender athletes, too. Maybe, just maybe, it will also make the move much more fair to females.
Last week Wednesday, she blazed to victory at the Irena Szewińska Memorial meeting in Bydgoszcz, Poland, beating the current European champion Justyna Święty-Ersetic of Poland, who finished second more than 20 m behind.
With that outstanding run, Mboma also set a new u20 world record, African record, national record, meeting record, and personal best and world-leading time
Let's hope that world record will be contested now.
It remains unclear whether high testosterone levels give athletes a competitive edge, despite WA's policy.
Err.... no, it doesn't remain unclear. It has been proven. In fact, here is a study. But, we don't need the study.... in females it is called 'doping' to increase their testosterone.
news.ki.se/increased-performance-in-female-athletes-after-testosterone-supplementation
(here is the study bjsm.bmj.com/content/54/10/599)
The flourishing 800-metre career of Annet Negesa from Uganda was cut short due to WA's intrusive measures.
In an interview with the New York Times in 2019, she claims to have been advised by WA to undergo irreversible surgery because of her naturally elevated testosterone levels.
Negesa's career has never been the same and she subsequently quit.
The treatment of Annet was devastatingly cruel. However, the surgery they had was orchiectomy (removal of internal testes).
www.hrw.org/report/2020/12/04/theyre-chasing-us-away-sport/human-rights-violations-sex-testing-elite-women
I think it is likely that these athletes have been sold a dream that cannot be delivered on. It is abhorrent if they found out about their DSDs this way and the health services in those countries obviously need a great deal of improvement. But they the OIC has allowed this half way measure and it should not.
However, cyclingmum, I think we can reasonably say that the NNOC president, Abner Xoagub, actually knows the reasons why these athletes have been excluded. I think that the journalist Sheefeni Nikodemus knows the truth too.
As I said, it is up to you who you believe. But I would probably want to have better source material.
This also confirms that biologically female athletes can have high levels of testosterone
It does no such thing. At all. In fact, by reading this article you are left with the distinct impression that the NNOC know exactly what is what. If the "It remains unclear whether high testosterone levels give athletes a competitive edge, despite WA's policy." has come from the NNOC to that journalist, one could say they are very complicit in perpetuating lies.