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[–]GConly 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Long post, short reply.

Later he fathered a daughter,

I was wondering if their internal balls would produce sperm. The internal temp is a bit higher than is good for that.

Every time on Reddit you mention Semenya has internal balls, the comment gets deleted. It's "a woman with hyperandrogenism", everything else is banned.

The whole claim that he never knew he was male was utter balls. He was dressed as a boy at school.

It's also kind of insulting to Africans to suggest they couldn't spot he was male when he hit puberty.

[–]MarkTwainiac 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Semenya has often said his younger sister & the kids he went to school with all questioned his sex. And yes, he wore the boys' uniform throughout his schooling. Which was not a privilege granted to any other female children in SA then (or now). Moreover, Semenya brags about how his wife has always viewed him as male.

Re the "internal balls" claim: in the development of male humans there are many different stages that the testes go through between originating inside the abdomen and finally ending up on the outside of the body in the groin. Lots of males with DSDs like Semenya's have testes that are more outie than innie, but are hidden from easy viewing by the skin and folds of the groin. The testes of such children at birth/in early childhood have traditionally NOT been seen as indicative of biological sex by sexist health care experts and family & community members. In their view, balls themselves don't matter - only balls of a certain location and size count.

[–]MarkTwainiac 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The lie that Semenya is "a woman with hyperandrogenism" isn't just rife on reddit. It's the position that all the MSM take as well.

Yes, it is insulting to Africans to suggest they can't see sex differences and are incapable of discerning DSDs/VSCs the way midwives and ordinary people in rural parts of the Dominican Republic where XY 5-ARD occurs somewhat commonly can.

At the same time, the Semenya scam seems to have been intentionally engineered by male political figures in post-Mandela SA who coz of their membership in or affiliation with the ANC were exiled and educated in "the global North" during the late-apartheid era of the 80s and early 90s. My impression is that a number of these very smart SA men quickly picked up on queer theory and immediately saw how its claims and theories could be used to hoist the white-dominated "global North" by its own petard. Which is exactly what's happened. And the ones who've paid the price are females humans of all races and nationalities.