by Selwyn Duke, The New American:
When then-18-year-old South African runner Caster Semenya was dusting female competition in races and arousing suspicion about “her” sexual status almost a generation ago, I made a prediction:
Medical tests would determine that Semenya had internal testes.
Sure enough, this was the case, examination results showed upon coming to light. Furthermore, Semenya was found to have an XY (male) genotype and also no womb or ovaries.
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You wouldn’t know it, though, from recent years’ reporting, with outlets merely describing the runner as having “naturally elevated levels of testosterone.” Well, yes, hermaphroditism is not normal — but it is “natural.”
Now there’s a similar controversy surrounding Algerian Olympic boxer Imane Khelif, especially after one of the fighter’s opponents, Italian Angela Carini, quit in her bout against Khelif, exclaiming “This is unjust!” Only, now, defenders of willful blindness have a new strategy: the race card. As the Associated Press put it yesterday: “For female athletes of color, scrutiny around gender rules and identity is part of a long trend.” Perhaps — so is media misdirection.
For the record, here’s what I wrote about Semenya back in 2009: “I’m convinced this individual is a boy who experienced abnormal intrauterine development … because of his masculine physique, deep voice, development of facial hair, male mannerisms and the fact that he has been winning races by wide margins.” It was not a difficult call. “If it walks like a duck…,” they say.
In fairness, Khelif is not as masculine as Semenya, video and audio make clear, nor has the fighter dominated female opponents as thoroughly as the South African did. Yet the International Boxing Association (IBA) did previously disqualify Khelif — along with Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-Ting, who’s also in the Olympics — from competition. The IBA states the two athletes failed sexual-identity tests, with many reports holding that they have XY genotypes.
One response to this is that the IBA, which is now headed by a Russian and which was recently funded by a Russian company, is not credible because of these ties. Sound familiar? “The Hunter Biden laptop is Russian disinfo,” anyone?
Ever since Donald Trump’s political ascendancy, and in particular after Moscow invaded Ukraine, invoking the Russian boogeyman has become a handy propaganda tool. But this strategy is called an ad hominem fallacy (attacking the messenger instead of dealing with the message); it is misdirection.
Speaking of which brings us to the AP. “Overcome with emotion, Algerian boxer Imane Khelif left the ring in tears after a resounding victory this weekend,” the outlet’s Noreen Nasir wrote yesterday. “Khelif has faced days of hateful comments and false accusations about her gender following her first fight against an Italian opponent who quit seconds into their bout.”
“‘It’s because she’s African, because she’s Algerian,’ 38-year-old Algerian fan Adel Mohammed said Saturday, when Khelif clinched an Olympic medal,” Nasir continued. “‘These comments are coming from white people … it’s a kind of racism.’”
(For the record, Algerians are Arabs and Arabs are technically Caucasian — just like Europeans.)
Of course, if ad hominem attacks are the order of the day, one could say that Nasir (an Arab name) and Mohammed must be biased, and they probably are. But what of the Truth?
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