Hysteria

Mother Nature is a crafty old woman she is always trying something new with each little fetus, a tweak here and snip there and we all come out a unique individual.

The problem come when us humans try to put people in neat little boxes.

Maybe Mother Nature’s little tweak caused PCOS, or maybe she tweaked the adrenal glands or maybe Mother Nature gave and extra chromosome.

The little girl became a world famous track and field athlete,

Gender test demanded for 200-meter silver Olympic medalist because she ran too fast, says former athlete
Insider
By Bethany Dawson
August 7, 2021


Former Polish athlete Marcin Urbas has demanded that Namibian sprinter Christine Mboma, 18, go through a sex-affirming test because he cannot believe someone who can run her times is "definitely is a woman."

Mboma won silver at the 200-meter sprint in Tokyo on Monday. She was narrowly beaten to the gold medal by Jamaica's Elaine Thompson-Herah, who broke the world record for the women's 200-meters with a time of just 21.53 seconds - 0.28 seconds faster than Mboma.

Her impressive speeds have led Urbas to question why she is better than him at that age: "I would like to request a thorough test on Mboma to find out if she definitely is a woman," said Urbas, reports sporting site Marca.com.

Due to her high testosterone levels, Mboma is barred from competing in races between 400-meters and 1000-meters, as per the Olympic rules.
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"The testosterone advantage of Mboma over other participants is seen with the naked eye. In construction, movement, technique, at the same time as speed and endurance. She has the parameters of an 18-year-old boy. At that age, my PB was 22.01, and she has done it in 21.97 in Tokyo," Urbas told Marca.com.

The New York Times said,

Track and Field Aimed for Inclusion. Instead It Sidelined Star Athletes.
Sebastian Coe, world track’s leader, has spent the past fi ve years pushing his vision of a level playing field. Critics say he is violating athletes’ human rights.
By Matthew Futterman
July 30, 2021 updated August 8, 2021


For six years, Sebastian Coe, the president of track and field’s world governing body, has been fighting a battle.

Coe, a two-time gold medalist in the 1,500 meters and a former member of the British Parliament, has been on a mission to uphold his vision of a level playing field, even if that put him at odds with increasingly vocal advocates for inclusion.

For decades, track and field, which moved to center stage at the Tokyo Olympics when it began on Friday, has focused on doping as its primary existential threat. But a broader understanding of identity in recent years has forced track officials to confront more complex and ambiguous questions, like how society should accommodate the disabled, and what determines gender identity.

Coe, who became president of track’s governing body, World Athletics, in 2015, said his predecessors ignored the issue for years, and he had no intention of doing the same. He knew his efforts would force him to make enemies of athletes who have garnered wide spread empathy, support and admiration, including runners born without fully functioning legs and women with naturally elevated testosterone levels.

“Accessibility and fair competition are not always compatible, and when they aren’t, fair competition has to be the overriding principle,”Coe said in an interview earlier this month, two weeks before the start of the Games.

As a result some athletes have been denied be able to compete in spots at all just because the way they were born.

Blake Leeper of the United States, a double-amputee athlete who competes in the 400 meters on running blades that World Athletics deemed too long, and Caster Semenya of South Africa, who has won two Olympic gold medals and three world championships at 800 meters, could not qualify under rules they have claimed are unfair.

Several other female middle distance runners with naturally elevated testosterone levels also will miss the competition. World Athletics has banned those runners from competing against other women in events between 400 meters and the mile — distances at which researchers say their biology gives them an unfair advantage — unless they suppress their elevated hormone levels medically.

Stop and think for a moment about unfair advantage.

UConn star basketball player Kara Wolters Drinan is 6’7” and Russian Malgorzata Dydek is 7’2” does this constitute and unfair advantage? I think most people would say no. What about long legs in track and field athletes are they an unfair advantage? Again I think most people would say no. Why is it then having naturally high testosterone levels is considered an unfair advantage?

The NYT went on and wrote…

Of course, the playing field in international sports is never truly level, even in running, which is arguably the most accessible form of athletic competition. Distance runners born and raised in the African highlands have the advantage of living at high altitude, which gives them more oxygen-carrying red blood cells than those who train at sea level. Athletes born in wealthy countries have far greater access to better facilities, nutrition, medical care and coaching.

Is it because it is unseen? Is it because it is internal? Or is it because of the ring-wing conservatives attack on trans people which spilled over to women with unnaturally high testosterone levels?

The Indian Express said that...

Explained: Will Namibian runner Mboma’s silver in 200m force a rule change?
Namibia's Christine Mboma had switched from the 400 m to the 200 m just before the Olympics because regulations put a cap on testosterone levels in women athletes. Her silver medal-winning performance may raise questions about the science behind the rules.
By Nihal Koshie
August 8, 2021


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Will Mboma’s win result in an expansion of the restricted events list?
Mboma winning silver is bound to generate debate.

Former 200 m sprinter-turned coach, Marcon Urbas is one of the first to react. He was quoted by Spanish sports daily Marca as saying: “I would like to request a thorough test on Mboma to find out if she definitely is a woman. The testosterone advantage of Mboma over other participants is seen with the naked eye. She has the parameters of an 18-year-old boy, at that age my (personal best) was 22.01…”

World Athletics had left this window of possibility open to add more events to the restricted list. In 2019, when the regulations came into force, World Athletics had stated: “The revised regulations expressly confirm that the IAAF Health & Science Department will keep this under review. If future evidence or new scientific knowledge indicates that there is a good justification to expand or narrow the numbers of events affected by the regulations, it will propose such revisions to the IAAF Council.”

I asked the question why is this “unfair advantage” different from other advantages like long legs or your lungs have greater capacity? Could the answer be as simple as Because we are different from them? We are freaks to them?