The case of Caster

I was reading an essay on The Bilerico Project by Patricia Warren entitled, "Olympics and the Coming Gender Inquistion". And the comments seemed to agree with her. I started to post my commnet but decided to post it here instead, mostly because I'm tired of being verbally pummelled when I disagree with the transcommunity. So here would be my response to here essay.

I'm curious, what will the lbgt, and especially the trans, commnity would say if, and maybe when, it is confirmed that Caster was born male and is physically male, with no female reproductive system and probably with some form of androgen insensitivity? Will you still argue Caster should still be allowed to compete as a female athlete?

Simply believing your a girl/woman is enough? And what about other similar male-born athletes who decide they're really women and want to compete too? And what if a female athele decides to transistion to being a man, taking testosterone, but still wants to compete as a female, her birth sex? Where is the line between male and female athletes? Isn't that what they established the standards for transatheletes in some sports (eg. golf, mountain biking)?

You criticize the IOC and IAAF, which deserves some for their ineptness with the case of Caster Semenya, but if they have to develop some rules for all female athletes, where do you suggest they draw the line, set the standards and require treatment for variations?

I think folks in the community need to take a step back and look at the large picture. It's not about one athlete who has a special condition, it's about fairness for all the athletes. Let's also not forget Caster chose to compete, she chose to step in to the sports arena and spotlight, and despite the way she's been treated by the IAAF, she doesn't necessarily have the right to cry foul when questions were raised. Like any athlete under investigation, she has the responsibility to prove her case, which she didn't even try.

I don't like arguing, even in the debate style, with diehard activists. They're deaf and blind to opposing views and often change the argument from the subject to the greater topic or the individual, as Andrea James did in her essay, "Caster Semenya and the Apartheid of Sex." She wandered around the question, and title of the essay, but never addressed it.

The end. This is what the transcommunity has argued with this case, either her right to be and compete, or about non-typical sex conditions in people, trying to fit Caster's into the larger scheme which needs protection from discrimination. But she and the others don't address the discrimination to the other female athletes.

And when someone does take them to task on this issue, they simply verbally pummel the person. And they wonder why many people, even current and former transgender people, don't like them? Talk about clueless.