Hey guys welcome back to my channel and
today we're going to be talking about
Part 3 of PC Culture Turned Upside Down
which is about cancel culture. So I've
been reading a lot of hot takes about
Cancel Culture online primarily on
Twitter and some people think that we
should stop using the term because A) no
one has really been cancelled and B) because the term has been appropriated
by the right to make the left look
extreme. So I myself have thought long
and hard about this and I still think
that cancele culture is a useful term
especially when it comes to rapists, 
sexual assaulters and harasses, and
though most of them still have long
careers ahead of them and hold high
positions in office I still think that
cancel culture sometimes works, such as
in the case with Bill Cosby. However, in
the end, that's just a small percentage
of the people that should be behind bars
and in the end do we really want to be
associated with the term that's used to
demonize us? Which I myself find very
very ironic considering the right has
the power and has been doing most of the
canceling. So with this video I want to
talk about an important case and about
people who have been cancelled by the
right because they don't understand that
biological sex is a social construct and
PS I'm not going to go into why the sex
binary is a social construct and how
biological sex is a spectrum so I have
left some links in the description if
you're curious about what I'm talking
about. The real people who are getting
canceled at this very moment are Olympic
medalist Caster Semenya of South Africa,
Margaret Wambui of Kenya, and
Francine Niyonsaba of Burundi. Why?  Because
they were born intersex, but have been
raised as women, identify as women, and
live as women, but because they have
abnormal amounts of testosterone and XY
chromosomes - both of which have no
bearing on athletic performance - the
Olympic Committee as well as the IAAF,
the International Association Athletics
Federation, says that they have to take
estrogen in order to compete. Semenya and
the other athletes to denounced this
decision, as taking estrogen would not
only hinder their performance, but also
the hormones are unnecessary. In fact ,it
would cause them more dysphoria and more
psychological damage. "I'm not going to
take medication because i'm not sick."
Margaret Wambui said to The Times.
"Those are chemicals you are putting in
your body, you don't know how it will
affect you later." She said and she's
totally right. "I didn't choose to be born
like this. What am I? I'm created by God."
Francine Niyonsaba said in an interview
with the Olympic Channel. Semenya later
battled the IOC and the IAAF in court
for almost ten years and this year she
lost, meaning that she and her intersex
peers can only compete in running
competitions in the Olympics and
throughout the world
if they take estrogen. Rather than
letting them compete with the men and
destroying the binary or creating a
space for intersex athletes (which may or
may not be helpful) the Olympics and the
IAAF canceled them all together. In the
article, Is there a right to know one's? Sex
the ethics of gender verification in
women's sports competition, which was
published in the Journal of Medical
Ethics, Claudia Weissman argued that, "Harm
is documented in a number of cases and
includes unjustified disqualification, 
severe sex and gender identity crisis,
demeaning reactions, social isolation
depression, and suicide. At the end of a
decade-long battle Semenya decided to
take a break from running and is now
playing for the JVW football club in the
South African women's league and she
decided to stop fighting for now as the
court battles and the "sex verification
testing" hurt her physical and mental
health.
However she continues to be one badass
woman with a very positive outlook on
life. And this isn't to say that people
don't take performance-enhancing drugs
but rather that Semenya and her peers
weren't taking drugs at all! They were
born this way and people just can't
accept that black strong female athletes
exist and let's just be real here, John
Coates, the president of the Court of
Arbitration of Sports, which resided over
Semenya's case, the IOC
president Thomas Bach, and Lord
Sebastian Coe, the president of the IAAF,
just don't want to see black women
winning medals. Or Asian women for that
matter. Lord Coe told the Australian
Daily Telegraph, "The reason we have
gender classification is that if you
didn't then no woman would ever win
another title or another medal or break
another record in our sport." And I
personally could talk about this for
hours, but just trust me that this "sex
testing" is bullshit.
The point is is that Semenya and intersex
athletes were cancelled from the biggest
stage on earth. She and the others didn't
deserve what happened to them.
They all fear that this will be the end
of their running career - a career that
they've trained years for. Not only that,
but the invalidation of their identities
and skills is extremely damaging to
their psyches. While homophobes garner
sympathy, Semenya and other female or
intersex athletes who don't fit the mold
of "what a female athlete should look
like" are told to pack their bags and
leave the thing that they love most. One
of the biggest impacts of these cases is
that it makes some people think that if any
female athlete is good she must be "part
man". So you enter this paradox where people
invalidate intersex people, but also
think that being intersex gives you "an edge".
On a Let'sRun message board, people were
talking about how the top female athlete
worldwide on IAAF's site Sifan Hassan, a
Muslim woman and a person of color, is
intersex. As if women can only be good at
sports if they're also men, but also them
being men doesn't mean they can compete
with men. And this is just the weirdest
thought process I've ever heard of.
So cancel culture is real, but it's not
the left that holds the power like the
right-wing pundits want you to believe, 
it's actually the conservative old white
men who continue to make the rules and
laugh in the face of inclusion and
diversity. And if you can't see the
difference between why we need to cancel
Brett Kavanaugh and the need to
uncancel Semenya and the other
intersex athletes, I honestly just can't
help you. But if you want to help people
like Semenya, Wambui, and Niyonsaba, 
consider donating to the Astraea
Lesbian Foundation for Justice, an
organization that funds programs and
initiatives led by and for diverse
communities prioritizing groups led by
lesbians, queer women, trans, and gender
non-conforming people, intersex people,
and people of color. Link in the
description! sS I don't have a solution
for cancel culture, as I myself sometimes
find it helpful, but if you do leave it
in the comments down below, do all the
YouTube stuff, bye and I'll see you in
the next one :)
