Transnegation Roundup/2020/09/09/2

Birth Genitalia Always Determine Gender

• 15:04 @sugabelly “Caster Semenya is a man and should compete with men. / The fact that they thought he was a girl at birth, and socialized him as a girl, doesn’t change the fact that he’s actually a man. / He has testes for goodness sake. / He also has no uterus, no ovaries. / No woman has testes.”

This is rather at odds with what other Gender Criticals have said on the matter -- i.e. basically if you're born with a penis, you're a man, and if there's any ambiguity then it's up to a doctor to "observe" what you are. Maybe you can be male without a penis, but you can't be female without a uterus? And doctors can issue false femininity but not false masculinity?

Do they consider femalehood to be, like, a special privilege? That would certainly be consistent with some social attitudes I internalized...

further reading

• Wikipedia: Caster Semenya
• 2019-05-09 Ten ethical flaws in the Caster Semenya decision on intersex in sport
• 2019-05-02 Caster Semenya ruling uses an unscientific definition of who is female, critics say
• 2009-09-11 Caster Semenya 'is a hermaphrodite', tests show