Legally an aardvark
There are things the law can’t do. Lots of things, actually. A big thing the law can’t do is change physical reality. You can pass a law saying the sun orbits the earth, but the sun will continue to not orbit the earth. The sun is not subject to human laws. There are lots of things you can replace “the sun” with in that sentence.
“Caster Semenya is legally female, was assigned female at birth, raised as female, and identifies as female. It seems clear on the face of it, therefore, that Semenya is female.”
Interesting choice of word, “seems.” “Seems, madam? Nay, it is; I know not ‘seems.'”
In fact, of course, no it doesn’t seem clear on the face of it that Semenya is female. Not on the face of it or the foot of it or the buttocks of it. All four items in that fatuous list are social, aka a matter of choice, aka artificial as opposed to natural, aka fantasy as opposed to reality. And speaking of on the face of it, the faces of the women Khelif punched know damn well he’s not female.
It’s cringey seeing adults continue to say these ridiculous things.
It seems extra odd in that this would have been used in any other time as an illustrative example of non sequitur. Yet here we are.
I disagree on the second item, assigned female, or more accurately observed to be female. The fact that the observers were misled by appearances does not change it from observation to artifice, and the explanation for the error is in the nature of Caster’s condition: female visible anatomy, male or mixed interior anatomy and male puberty.
But observation is social. Social is not necessarily artifice, but assigning sex is fer sher social.