Noel Hand Grenade's video: Women s Athletics and Testosterone IAAF Accused of Racism

To support my work please visit http://www.patreon.com/noelplum99 I think the IAAF has two issues here which are unsolvable: 1) Gender and biological sex cannot be acknowledged as different things (as the IAAF do) but then at the same time interchangeably regard sport as "women's sport" and "female sport" (which they do) without running into clear contradictions. 2) The IAAF, in my opinion, is absolutely right in the need to differentiate female and male athletes so as not to disenfranchise, at birth, half the population from any possibility of competitive success (thereby undermining much of their remit to begin with). However, doing so runs immediately into this barrier that the hazy nature of the limits of female biology (in everything _other than_ the production of gametes which so defines it) mean that they either HAVE to say to some females "you are not female enough" OR not solve the disenfranchisement issues that having female-only restricted categories was intended to tackle in the first place. I do not see that either of these will ever be solved to the satisfaction of everyone, or even close to this. The more we look into these issues the less tenable WHATEVER stance the IAAF take will appear to be. The real loser will be female athletes and aspiring female athletes. Either athletes with intersex conditions being told they are not the right kind of "female" or non-intersex athletes effectively being put in the position that they may as well not bother trying* The only positive is that I can just sit here and watch it all play out. *As i allude to in the video, in many ways your ethnic ancestry rules you out of most events anyway. This is the hard reality: line your athletic goals up with your genetic possibilities and don't dream "if I only train hard enough and try enough I can beat Usain Bolt". Reality is that if you are not of west african ethnic origin you have as much chance as Bolt would have had winning the 10,000m had he devoted his life to that event instead. Zero chance. Perhaps in this, though, we all at least have _some_ events we can tilt for given our ethnicity (every ethnic group appears to still be competitive in some track and field disciplines given the wide ranging nature of the demands). The female DSD issues, however, potentially push every event out of reach (they affect everything from muscle mass to haemoglobin count) and so I think that makes it potentially a more pointed issue for female athletes. New IAAF testosterone rules could slow Caster Semenya by up to seven seconds https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/apr/25/iaaf-testosterone-rules-caster-semenya IAAF testosterone ruling 'a painful reminder' of apartheid-era South Africa, says ANC https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/43910794