I'm sorry to say, but seeing the discussion turning into a political fight between feminism and gender doesn't sound very nice to me. Maybe it's because i'm a heterosexual male, and i dislike radicalims in both directions, but quite frankly there should be a common ground when we talk about sport.
Now, let me start from a simple statement: sport is the main (the only?) human activity where a distinction MUST be kept based on biological differences between people born XX and people born XY. Why? Simply because otherwise we prevent bilion of people on our planet just from having the possibility to realize themselves, earn glory and money through sport.
That said, off course we also need to be able to differentiate, and find the most appropriate set of rules to cover the different cases and give everyone the chances they deserve. But to be able to do that, first we have to remove the ambiguity that since the case of Semenya was kept by many: WA, national federations, the athetles themselves (often using privacy as an excuse). Some people after more than 10 years still believe Semenya is a XX person with "naturally high testosterone", just to make one example.
Now, in the thread about Niyonsaba i have already expressed my view about 46XY DSD people. I'm open both to a separate category, and to a reduction to the level of testosterone within a range that allows fair competition (off course, this must be applicable to all events as testosterone has the same impact everywhere as demonstrated by the difference in top performance between men and women), although i'd like to have an expert view on how much the production of testosterone over years - and its effects on muscles, bones, blood, etc... - can affect performance even since the level of testosterone is artificially lowered.
Coming to ths new case: first, we don't know whether Mboma is 4S XY DSD or 46 XX with unusually high level of testosterone. This links to my previous point. In this context, hiding behind privacy is non-sense. Second, i understand there were studies on the possibility that a female person can generate high levels of testosterone, and use it with similar consequence to a man, but then i have questions: how likely is that? And when that happens, how likely is it that it's not due to a serious illness or (in case of an athlete) to doping? If we don't know, we'll always be in a grey zone where the discussion and the communication are always polluted by cultural and political opinions.
Btw, @RunRagged: in the thread about Niyonsaba you wrote that my view was "100% misogynistic and male supremacist". I still would like to understand why, i could not really understand that.
