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[Trigger Warning for Transphobia]

Dilemma
Gender identity enigma

Caster Semenya
Caster Semenya
Is a hermaphrodite

Cheat
Fair playing field
Unfair advantage
Distinct advantages against women in sports

Forced to have gender testing
The concept makes precious little sense

DNA
Height
Strength
5-foot-11
200-pound
Muscle mass
Testosterone
Male muscling
Bone structure
Intrinsic biology
Strength of men
Skeletal structure
Masculine physiognomy
Having both male and female sex chromosomes

Superior
It’s believed

One-time man

She’s 57
57-year-old
57-year-old
A transsexual Masters for aging duffers

Transgendered individuals

Postoperative
Reassignment surgery
Gender-reassignment surgery
Switching anatomy if not human atoms
Some among us recreate their very identity

Entitlement privileges
Conundrum of applying broad civil rights
Privileges that she feels she is now entitled to

Even Dr. Renee Richards
Male-to-female tennis player
Mixed transgendered doubles at Wimbledon

Not created equal
The measure of a man
Remains that of a man
The measure of a woman
Female but transgendered to male
The two can’t be conjoined into one

Born and raised a female
Though never officially confirmed
A female, too, both legally and in her own mind

Core reality has been blurred

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These are but a few of the words in today's Toronto Star.

Crossposted.

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