How is Semenya an intersex woman? Semenya has a male-only DSD, 5-ARD, and this has been known by Semenya and South African sports authorities since before Semenya was introduced to the world in 2009 as SA's "golden girl" runner.

5-ARD in males is a well-documented and well-understood condition. In the Dominican Republic, where it occurs at an unusually high rate because of consanguinity, it's known as "penis at twelve."

Semenya and the other males with DSDs who've been subjected to the IAAF/World Athletics new rules (as of 2019) for testosterone reduction in order to participate in female sports all have to meet very specific conditions. They have to have all of the following characteristics:

XY male sex chromosomes, not XX female sex chromosomes:

functioning testes - no ovaries, or other internal female reproductive organs;

testosterone in the healthy, normal male range for male people of their age, not testosterone in the much, much lower female range;

sensitivity to testosterone that enables their bodies to use the T their testes make in male-typical ways, meaning they have the athletic advantages of bodies that have gone through and been shaped by male puberty.

Semenya is a woman only in the legal sense, and that's only coz at age 16 Semenya was issued a birth certificate saying Semenya's sex is "F," and now has a passport that says "F" as well. BTW, at the time Semenya first got a BC, SA officials had already decided to use Semenya and Semenya's DSD as a test case in an effort to challenge and perhaps take down international sports bodies such as the IAAF/World Athletics that the ANC in SA see as Eurocentric, white supremacists who epitomize the colonialist attitudes of the Global North and who long have used Eurocentric standards to keep down the "black and brown" people of the Global South.

Pray tell, how other than this is Semenya a woman?

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34290981

https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/5-alpha-reductase-deficiency