Sincere question - are transgendered runners given a TUE to take hormones to confirm their gender? Up to a certain limit? I'm thinking about the range that was revealed when Caster Semenya was going through that (horrible) testing and examination. Thanks in advance for any informed answers.
You got a serious Hate Kessler obsession. You know there are psychiatric therapy available for you. PS ALL the runners were paced by Hoppel but it only helped Kessler??
Sincere question - are transgendered runners given a TUE to take hormones to confirm their gender? Up to a certain limit? I'm thinking about the range that was revealed when Caster Semenya was going through that (horrible) testing and examination. Thanks in advance for any informed answers.
Only if it involves testosterone. That is checked and there is no TUE. The officials do not care if somebody is taking estrogens and they are not PEDs.
Sincere question - are transgendered runners given a TUE to take hormones to confirm their gender? Up to a certain limit? I'm thinking about the range that was revealed when Caster Semenya was going through that (horrible) testing and examination. Thanks in advance for any informed answers.
Only if it involves testosterone. That is checked and there is no TUE. The officials do not care if somebody is taking estrogens and they are not PEDs.
Correct as I understand it.
IF Nikki or any other similar athlete ever decided to transition with the use of testosterone, their racing career are over. In that case, they’d be taking a performance enhancing steroid
Oh no, Parker Wolfe is signing the Eiffel Tower replica. Did James Corrigan sign it? I need to figure out if this is lucky or not. Someone on twitter is saying he's writing "Good luck, Graham."
Only if it involves testosterone. That is checked and there is no TUE. The officials do not care if somebody is taking estrogens and they are not PEDs.
Correct as I understand it.
IF Nikki or any other similar athlete ever decided to transition with the use of testosterone, their racing career are over. In that case, they’d be taking a performance enhancing steroid
Thanks for the thoughtful answers. So Nikki's accomplishment today is based purely on talent and hard work - not T or anything else.
Femke sticking with the 400H remains kinda insane.
Gold last year, silver this year, vs. taking her chances in the flat 400 against multiple 48 women. It’s not that crazy.
Last year was obviously different. I guess yes she has a pretty clear path to Silver. But she ran 49.1 indoors so I think there’s no question she is right there with the best 400m women. You can’t tell me she wouldn’t be even better at the flat 400 too if she wasn’t doing hurdles practice.
No shame in Dalilah Muhammed bowing out with this as her last Olympic Trials
One of the most celebrated, storied, and accomplished careers ever
Very sad for her that she becomes the best in the world, doesn't ever really get the full attention she deserves, and then gets obliterated by freaking Godzilla.
(Kovacs and a few others have obviously experienced varying degrees of the same thing.)
Track and life are not fair.
Fortunately for Dalilah, as she said the other day, she was lucky enough to get a solid long-term contract as a youngster, so that makes it a little less brutal, but still.