Christmasmorale
it's not surprising that you're under the impression that sympathy should be reserved for caster semenya .
Sporting bodies, caster himself, his entire team, and the press were all complicit in what really has begun to seem like a massive con.
The press absolutely wrote stories about invasive and humiliating examinations to determine caster's sex. And many people were under the impression that caster is a woman with high testosterone.
But once further testing was deemed ambiguous, a lot more came to light.
One of the things that came to light was an interview with Caster, where he clearly thinks of himself as male. Talking about women in a sexist way, and calling them soft. His coach called him he and always has.
Photographs of caster as a child would indicate that after puberty, at least, he thought of himself as male.
Apparently the DSD that Caster has is not rare in certain parts of the world and is colloquially called 'Penis at 12'. As, at puberty, it's quite clear what sex the person is.
(It's something like the viralisation of testosterone that should happen at birth, but doesn't, happens with puberty.)
And yes, it would appear that scouts deliberate identify individuals like this, because many are registered as female, but have male sporting advantage.
You may not have realised any of this, but as this is the sex and gender board, and the women here have been discussing Caster for about 10 years.
In great detail.
There are many other male athletes with the same DSD, Khelif is one of them. Indeed, in the women's 800 m at the Rio Olympics, the gold, silver and bronze all went to men.
All of them called women with naturally high testosterone levels. A level that is impossible for any woman to achieve.
It's a fucking disgrace.
It's not an accident, it's not just a shame, it's a deliberate way of courting fame, money and kudos by screwing women over.
And it's nothing to do with racism.
Men and women have 6500 genetic differences. A masculine looking woman does not look like a man.
It's ironic that being gender critical, like the women here, means that women can be as masculine as they bloody like, and it's absolutely irrelevant to the fact that they are female.
That IS gender criticism.