Runner Semenya attends rights hearing on her testosterone levels

South African runner Caster Semenya said Wednesday's hearing at the European Court of Human Rights on whether the double Olympic champion can be required to lower her testosterone levels to compete was an "important day" as her costly legal marathon entered its last lap.
Speaking after the hearing, the 33-year-old runner said: "The outcome of this case is very important. You need to pave out a way for young women so they cannot face the injustice, the scrutiny of being judged, being de-humanized and being discriminated [against].”
Semenya, who is classed as having "differences in sexual development" but has always been legally identified as female, has refused to take drugs to reduce her testosterone levels since track and field's governing body World Athletics introduced its original rules in 2018.
CAS ruled against her in 2019, and the decision was validated by the Swiss Federal Court in Lausanne in 2020.
It declared "fair competition" a "cardinal principle of sport" and said that a testosterone level comparable to that of men gave female athletes "an insurmountable advantage."
Semenya won an earlier round at the ECHR, which last July ruled she was the victim of discrimination from the Lausanne-based Court of Arbitration for Sport.
(AFP)

[@TheRobinRedbreast]

I don't think I would mind if every athlete was tested for testosterone levels. This would assure that men were competing against men and women were competing against women.

[@benjaminfranklin8412]

DNA test. Testerone levels is not the only factor that determines sex.

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Special Olympics.
Para Olympics.
Maybe the Trans Olympics would solve. This unfair behavior and policy toward women.

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a man