800-meter champ Caster Semenya has dominated her event like no other female athlete in track over the past 10 years, until she was sidelined by the rules.
Defending 800-meter champion Caster Semenya has dominated her event like no other female athlete in track over the past 10 years, winning two Olympic golds and three world championships.
Pape wondered about Semenya's fast times and physique, but now realizes testosterone is not the only factor that makes a champion. IAAF president Sebastian Coe, recently re-elected to another four-year term, says the regulations are necessary and weren't meant to exclude people. The IAAF regulations apply only to female middle-distance runners with the 46 XY Difference of Sex Development condition, requiring them to lower their testosterone below 5 nanomoles per liter of blood. They'd need to take birth control pills or hormone shots to compete in international events.
This spring, Semenya lost her case before CAS 2-1. The IAAF narrowed the regulation to only intersex females who compete in events ranging from the 400 meters to the mile and mandated testosterone below 5 nanos. There are no testosterone limits for men. "The rule discriminates by imposing special burdens based on characteristics — both sex and biology — that are protected from discrimination," said Suzanne Goldberg, law professor at Columbia University and director of the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law."Courts often look with skepticism on claims that discrimination is 'necessary' because those claims often amount to an effort to enshrine tradition stereotypes into law.
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