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[–]jet199 9 insightful - 4 fun9 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

If these "girls" have the same condition as Caster Semenya then they aren't girls at all but boys who happen to have internal testes.

Their families and their countries doctors will have known they are males from birth and they are just trying to get their male intersex athletes through via a loophole.

Caster Semenya was raised as a boy and has fathered a child. The whole thing is just African corruption.

[–]soundsituation 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

If these "girls" have the same condition as Caster Semenya

They do.

Their level of testosterone has made them ineligible for the women's 400m but still eligible for the women's 100 & 200m because they are subject to World Athletics' so-called "Semenya rules." These rules put restrictions on the T levels of athletes competing in women's middle-distance events only if the athletes meet ALL of the following criteria: 46,XY sex chromosomes, not XX chromosomes; testes, not ovaries; male levels of T, not T in the far lower female range; and male-typical sensitivity to T.

If WA hadn't already determined Mboma's and Masilingi's sex and medical status, and ascertained that they are XY DSD with testes, then the Semenya rules wouldn't apply to them.

https://www.worldathletics.org/news/press-release/questions-answers-iaaf-female-eligibility-reg