Gender Studies and the IAAF

Originally Posted Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Dutee Chand is being prevented from competing as a female because her naturally occurring testosterone is above the International Association of Athletes Federation's limits.  To compete, they want her to either a) take drugs that will restrict her natural output of testosterone or b) have a surgical procedure to restrict its production.  I'm not making this up (link).  She is a beautiful eighteen year old woman who runs fast.  WTF!  Who is in charge of these things!  

I've never been tested, but I assume that my estrogen levels run pretty high.  The picture above is pretty much a self-portrait.  I could have been one of the Amazons, no doubt, a fierce warrior.   I know that the fellows in school who were jacked up on high levels of naturally occurring test were athletes or criminals and were to be avoided as idiotic miscreants at all cost.  We used them as athletic fodder, of course, had them bang heads so that they would develop cognitive disabilities and dementia at an early age, though truthfully, they seemed to have already developed that by middle-school.  We love our boys with with high testosterone production.  We call them heros and tell them not to hurt the other boys but don't mind all that much when they do.  If they don't make it to the Olympics or pro sports, they go into the military or join a police force or, if they go to college and get an education degree, we make them coaches and later Assistant Principals where inevitably they work for some estrogen-laden pussy who makes up the rules.  

Like the fellows who run the IAAF, I would presume.  The problem, as always, lies with definitions.  As the Times reports, "Chand’s situation has highlighted one of the most perplexing issues facing sports and society: that there is no indisputable way to draw a line between male and female when most competitions have only two categories — one for men and the other for women."  Don't think that will stop them, though.  Rules are rules.  

Q has already opined that there should be gender equality in sports.  He wants to be able to compete in the WNBA or something (I don't remember exactly).  He is preparing his son for the inevitable day when sports equality becomes a reality.  No matter.  I think Dutee Chand will outrun him even if he becomes William Vollman.  And she is much prettier than Q is, too.