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Anonymous ID: 5fc83d Feb. 13, 2019, 4:29 p.m. No.5161359   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1442 >>1672

Olympic women's 800m champion Caster Semenya should be classed as 'biologically male', lawyers to tell court

 

Lawyers for the International Association of Athletics Federations will tell a court Olympic women's 800m champion Caster Semenya should be classed as a "biological male" who identifies as female next week.

 

While the IAAF will argue the 28-year-old South African should be classed as "biologically male" they will also suggest Semenya be allowed to compete in women's races if she takes testosterone suppressants, The Times reports.

 

The issue will be addressed in a five-day hearing at the Court of Arbitration of Sport seen as a landmark case surrounding athletes with differences of sexual development (DSD).

 

It's a case that will further bring the use of testosterone blockers into the spotlight. In 2018, the United Nations human rights special procedures body implored the IAAF to drop their regulations when it came to transgender athletes and testosterone blockers, claiming they "contravene international human rights."

 

Speaking to The Times, IAAF lawyer Jonathan Taylor said if the case went against them it would be a blow to athletes with normal female levels of testosterone, which are an average 15 times lower than the normal male range.

 

"If the CAS rules that legal recognition as female is sufficient to qualify for the female category of competition, and the IAAF is not permitted to require athletes of female legal sex who have testes and consequently male levels of testosterone to reduce those levels down to the female range, then DSD and transgender athletes will dominate the podiums and prize money in sport, and women with normal female testosterone levels will not have any chance to win," Taylor said.

 

Independent legal experts told The Times the IAAF's case is much stronger now than when it lost a ruling brought by the Indian sprinter Dutee Chand in 2015.

 

Semenya is challenging the IAAF's new eligibility rules that would mean DSD runners in women's middle-distance races would have to have less than five nanomoles of testosterone per litre (nmol/L) of blood for the previous six months, or to race against other DSD athletes or men.

 

In 2018, Dr Ross Tucker from the University of Cape Town estimated Semenya's time for the 800m would drop by five to seven seconds if she was forced to inhibit testosterone to the level of the IAAF's new eligibility rules.

 

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=12203657

Anonymous ID: 5fc83d Feb. 13, 2019, 4:53 p.m. No.5161709   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1728

>>5161687 You were God's people, but you did EVIL

 

Jeremiah 11

 

The Covenant Is Broken

 

11 This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord: 2 “Listen to the terms of this covenant and tell them to the people of Judah and to those who live in Jerusalem. 3 Tell them that this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Cursed is the one who does not obey the terms of this covenant— 4 the terms I commanded your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, out of the iron-smelting furnace.’ I said, ‘Obey me and do everything I command you, and you will be my people, and I will be your God. 5 Then I will fulfill the oath I swore to your ancestors, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey’—the land you possess today.”

 

I answered, “Amen, Lord.”

 

6 The Lord said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: ‘Listen to the terms of this covenant and follow them. 7 From the time I brought your ancestors up from Egypt until today, I warned them again and again, saying, “Obey me.” 8 But they did not listen or pay attention; instead, they followed the stubbornness of their evil hearts. So I brought on them all the curses of the covenant I had commanded them to follow but that they did not keep.’”

 

9 Then the Lord said to me, “There is a conspiracy among the people of Judah and those who live in Jerusalem. 10 They have returned to the sins of their ancestors, who refused to listen to my words. They have followed other gods to serve them. Both Israel and Judah have broken the covenant I made with their ancestors. 11 Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘I will bring on them a disaster they cannot escape. Although they cry out to me, I will not listen to them. 12 The towns of Judah and the people of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they will not help them at all when disaster strikes. 13 You, Judah, have as many gods as you have towns; and the altars you have set up to burn incense to that shameful god Baal are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’

 

14 “Do not pray for this people or offer any plea or petition for them, because I will not listen when they call to me in the time of their distress.

 

15

“What is my beloved doing in my temple

as she, with many others, works out her evil schemes?

Can consecrated meat avert your punishment?

When you engage in your wickedness,

then you rejoice.[a]”

 

16

The Lord called you a thriving olive tree

with fruit beautiful in form.

But with the roar of a mighty storm

he will set it on fire,

and its branches will be broken.

 

17 The Lord Almighty, who planted you, has decreed disaster for you, because the people of both Israel and Judah have done evil and aroused my anger by burning incense to Baal.

Plot Against Jeremiah

 

18 Because the Lord revealed their plot to me, I knew it, for at that time he showed me what they were doing. 19 I had been like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter; I did not realize that they had plotted against me, saying,

 

“Let us destroy the tree and its fruit;

let us cut him off from the land of the living,

that his name be remembered no more.”

20

But you, Lord Almighty, who judge righteously

and test the heart and mind,

let me see your vengeance on them,

for to you I have committed my cause.

 

21 Therefore this is what the Lord says about the people of Anathoth who are threatening to kill you, saying, “Do not prophesy in the name of the Lord or you will die by our hands”— 22 therefore this is what the Lord Almighty says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine. 23 Not even a remnant will be left to them, because I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.”