Caster Semenya wife is pregnant..

Serious question: who's the father. I could make assumptions, but don't see info in the post.

miss piggy wrote:

Now do you all finally believe that Caster Semenya is a man?!?!?

Jesus Christ this cheating coward stole medals from real women for a decade and it took the IAAF a 5 year law suit and 2.4 million dollars in legal fees to get him out of the sport.

What is the likelihood that Semenya is the father?

Ivf?

I mean, I would expect this, but I'm not positive.

His/her personal life is just that. All the best wishes to them. Just please do the right thing and stay off of the track and let women compete against other women. Race against the men all you want.

miss piggy wrote:

Now do you all finally believe that Caster Semenya is a man?!?!?

Pretty much all the lesbian couples I know have had a child "together". I have never inquired as to how they arranged that because that's private. I assume it's likely through IVF. My point is this does not prove that Caster is a man unless they were to actually publicly announce that Caster and Violet "made a baby" though sexual intercourse together.

Note: I do not think Caster should be allowed to race against women, even with lowered testosterone. Just saying this doesn't "prove" anything without more information.

not without more wrote:

miss piggy wrote:

Now do you all finally believe that Caster Semenya is a man?!?!?

Pretty much all the lesbian couples I know have had a child "together". I have never inquired as to how they arranged that because that's private. I assume it's likely through IVF. My point is this does not prove that Caster is a man unless they were to actually publicly announce that Caster and Violet "made a baby" though sexual intercourse together.

Note: I do not think Caster should be allowed to race against women, even with lowered testosterone. Just saying this doesn't "prove" anything without more information.

I completely agree with you. IVF would make the most sense. But given the controversy surrounding Semenya, I would think that in the press release they would somehow mention IVF or whatever they did. Strange that you see no mention of it.

What's JK Rowling's take on this?

This could be the chance for her to take her Twitter trolling on to a new level.

ex-runner wrote:

miss piggy wrote:

Now do you all finally believe that Caster Semenya is a man?!?!?

Jesus Christ this cheating coward stole medals from real women for a decade and it took the IAAF a 5 year law suit and 2.4 million dollars in legal fees to get him out of the sport.

What is the likelihood that Semenya is the father?

Depends on how you define father.

Is a father the one who provides the sperm? If so, then there is a 0% likelihood Caster is the father.

Is a father the one who raises the kid? If so, then there is a near 100% chance Caster is the father.

LMAO, call it what you will. Unless you've had to go through artificial reproduction methods or study it for a living, there's no reason to know that level of detail. Can I laugh at you for not being able to calculate a Hamiltonian? But fine.

The question is, how did the pregnancy occur? Natural or otherwise? In that long rambling bit, we didn't get any insight or sources.

sbeefyk2 wrote:

ex-runner wrote:

What is the likelihood that Semenya is the father?

Depends on how you define father.

Is a father the one who provides the sperm? If so, then there is a 0% likelihood Caster is the father.

Is a father the one who raises the kid? If so, then there is a near 100% chance Caster is the father.

Why? Can Caster produce eggs? Not sure what XY Female can physically do. Can Caster produce sperm? Also not sure. Do you have a source?

Look up Erik Schinegger

integral (e^x) wrote:

LMAO, call it what you will. Unless you've had to go through artificial reproduction methods or study it for a living, there's no reason to know that level of detail. Can I laugh at you for not being able to calculate a Hamiltonian? But fine.

The question is, how did the pregnancy occur? Natural or otherwise? In that long rambling bit, we didn't get any insight or sources.

What kind of Hamiltonians do you "calculate"?

I don't just generate them, I solve the damn things.

Even if Caster did impregnate her wife via intercourse, she’s still a WOMAN so she runs against other WOMEN.

Armin Tamzarian wrote:

Even if Caster did impregnate her wife via intercourse, she’s still a WOMAN so she runs against other WOMEN.

I am not sure how this makes sense. She doesn't run against women in her designated events because of XY/high T combo. She's free to identify how she feels, but the ability to make viable sperm would seem to confirm the current ruling.

little known fact wrote:

Armin Tamzarian wrote:

Even if Caster did impregnate her wife via intercourse, she’s still a WOMAN so she runs against other WOMEN.

I am not sure how this makes sense. She doesn't run against women in her designated events because of XY/high T combo. She's free to identify how she feels, but the ability to make viable sperm would seem to confirm the current ruling.

I’m saying that the ruling keeping her from running the 400-1500 is bull. It doesn’t matter if you make sperm or eggs. If you identify as female, you should get to compete as a female. It’s really quite simple stuff.

Armin Tamzarian wrote:

little known fact wrote:

I am not sure how this makes sense. She doesn't run against women in her designated events because of XY/high T combo. She's free to identify how she feels, but the ability to make viable sperm would seem to confirm the current ruling.

I’m saying that the ruling keeping her from running the 400-1500 is bull. It doesn’t matter if you make sperm or eggs. If you identify as female, you should get to compete as a female. It’s really quite simple stuff.

That's the part that I don't know how it makes sense. It seems like your argument is that it just should be that way because it settles more easily with you. Even Connecticut high schools have walked back that aggressive stance in the spirit of fairness.

Don't get me wrong, I think everyone, whether male, female, XY Female, trans, etc. has a fundamental right to be treated reasonably. But we want things to be fair in life for all people. Rights and freedoms are limited all the time in that pursuit.

Gender and how to classify it in a way that is fair is actually complicated AF. If it were a truly binary thing, then yeah it would be easy, but it's unfortunately not.

I wonder if Castor getting pregnant is in the cards at some point. Since she's a women, it must be crossing her mind, the biological clock is ticking!