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Due to some life-threatening medical maladies I have incurred since my 20s (I am now in my 30s), I suffer from hypogonadism, or the inability to produce NORMAL amounts of testosterone for a man. I cannot even produce trace amounts or the amount that a woman produces despite the fact I was perfectly healthy in that respect through about my mid 20s when I had a blunt trauma to my pituitary. It is embarrassing to admit this, but the reason I bring it up is because it is very relevant to this Semenya controversy.
Going from normal amounts for a male to producing zero (not even what a women who produces lower than normal amounts for a female produces) HAS ZAPPED ME OF ANY AND ALL ENERGY so much so that I went from being athletic and active to - despite the fact I get Testosterone Replacement therapy (and thus would never be able to participate in the Olympics, but I was never in danger there anyhow, but I am a sports journalist and a fiction writer)- being so empty in testosterone that I literally am almost completely homebound and it takes days of recovery for me to recoup after running a simple errand like going to the local food market.
THE REASON I POINT THIS OUT IS THAT IF A PERSON ALLEGES TO BE A FEMALE but HAS THREE TIMES THE AMOUNT OF TESTOSTERONE she is either doping - which would be illegal - or has a serious medical condition that would require immediate treatment and running in IAAF races would be at the bottom of her urgency issues that need addressing. She probably was not nor has ever been a female. She was born, which is a lot more prevalent than people realize, with ambiguous genitalia, and until the last half-decade or so the protocol for such was to surgically open a canal for urine and NOT EVEN BOTHER to do any genetic testing to see whether or not this person is a male or female, which regardless of how they present can be determined with genetic testing AT BIRTH.
If she (he) does indeed believe that she is a woman, I repeat that running fast times is the least of her worries as she has medical issues that need to be addressed immediately. If, more likely, she is indeed a man then she has either a) perpetuated a HUGE fraud on IAAF and should be punished harshly with a lifetime ban, or b) been living a lie unwittingly and unknowingly, and she will need medical as well as psychological intervention to make sure that a healthy person emerges when the scandal comes to an end. Regardless, her medical records should never have been breached and for that you have reporters and their sources WHO PLACE THE RIGHT TO KNOW above all else to blame (it is not like national security was at risk ... And to those in the medical and journalistic professions who are involved in the leak, I think the medical side should lose their licenses with LIFETIME bans and the employers of those who first reported the leak about Semenya should be fined, the reporter fired, and both employer and employee should be ostracized from the Track and Field Community with no ban being long enough, whether Semenya is a woman, a man, or (LEAST LIKELY) honestly an anomaly as their really is no such thing as - despite the perversions of those with some strange fetishes - a MEDICAL HEMAPHRODITE.
I hope if Semenya is innocent in all of this, while I find it unlikely, that if she is not complicit she should sue the leakers and the original purveyors of her confidential medical records and maybe even the governing bodies if the leaks occurred with a wink and a nod from the IAAF as Semenya's life will forever be synonymous with scandal.
-Scott M
Going from normal amounts for a male to producing zero (not even what a women who produces lower than normal amounts for a female produces) HAS ZAPPED ME OF ANY AND ALL ENERGY so much so that I went from being athletic and active to - despite the fact I get Testosterone Replacement therapy (and thus would never be able to participate in the Olympics, but I was never in danger there anyhow, but I am a sports journalist and a fiction writer)- being so empty in testosterone that I literally am almost completely homebound and it takes days of recovery for me to recoup after running a simple errand like going to the local food market.
THE REASON I POINT THIS OUT IS THAT IF A PERSON ALLEGES TO BE A FEMALE but HAS THREE TIMES THE AMOUNT OF TESTOSTERONE she is either doping - which would be illegal - or has a serious medical condition that would require immediate treatment and running in IAAF races would be at the bottom of her urgency issues that need addressing. She probably was not nor has ever been a female. She was born, which is a lot more prevalent than people realize, with ambiguous genitalia, and until the last half-decade or so the protocol for such was to surgically open a canal for urine and NOT EVEN BOTHER to do any genetic testing to see whether or not this person is a male or female, which regardless of how they present can be determined with genetic testing AT BIRTH.
If she (he) does indeed believe that she is a woman, I repeat that running fast times is the least of her worries as she has medical issues that need to be addressed immediately. If, more likely, she is indeed a man then she has either a) perpetuated a HUGE fraud on IAAF and should be punished harshly with a lifetime ban, or b) been living a lie unwittingly and unknowingly, and she will need medical as well as psychological intervention to make sure that a healthy person emerges when the scandal comes to an end. Regardless, her medical records should never have been breached and for that you have reporters and their sources WHO PLACE THE RIGHT TO KNOW above all else to blame (it is not like national security was at risk ... And to those in the medical and journalistic professions who are involved in the leak, I think the medical side should lose their licenses with LIFETIME bans and the employers of those who first reported the leak about Semenya should be fined, the reporter fired, and both employer and employee should be ostracized from the Track and Field Community with no ban being long enough, whether Semenya is a woman, a man, or (LEAST LIKELY) honestly an anomaly as their really is no such thing as - despite the perversions of those with some strange fetishes - a MEDICAL HEMAPHRODITE.
I hope if Semenya is innocent in all of this, while I find it unlikely, that if she is not complicit she should sue the leakers and the original purveyors of her confidential medical records and maybe even the governing bodies if the leaks occurred with a wink and a nod from the IAAF as Semenya's life will forever be synonymous with scandal.
-Scott M
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