Posted: Jun 26, 2019 11:58 pm
It's a good piece.
It's that in addition to the fact, to a large extent, she developed a female phenotype. It's not like she functions as a man in society as she largely isn't perceived as one. Her identifying as a man when she has been told her whole life she's a women and her body has largely reinforced that would be odd.
I'm sure she doesn't have all the athletic advantages of males because she doesn't have a typical male body. I doubt her lung capacity is significantly greater than that of typical female athletes.
That's what I've read.
Thommo wrote:I think they call her a woman because she identifies as a woman, not as a reflection of her biological sex.
It's that in addition to the fact, to a large extent, she developed a female phenotype. It's not like she functions as a man in society as she largely isn't perceived as one. Her identifying as a man when she has been told her whole life she's a women and her body has largely reinforced that would be odd.
I'm sure she doesn't have all the athletic advantages of males because she doesn't have a typical male body. I doubt her lung capacity is significantly greater than that of typical female athletes.
The Doriane Lambelet Coleman article based on her testimony before CAS consistently genders her female, but clearly describes her as a biological male (and I think also intersex in one place). She was one of the people testifying for the IAAF, so her view is likely to be fairly representative of their view as a whole.
That's what I've read.