It's not that I have trouble believing she wasn't allowed to do this before - I have no problem believing trainers and coaches force young athletes to live spartan lives. I simply have trouble believing it's a coincidence that she would come out and say that when her gender has been under public scrutiny. I have trouble believing that these are her words, not because they sound unlikely for her to say, but because they are so obviously a very conventional and defensive response in the context of your gender being questioned.

But more than being doubtful about how much is her truth and how much is her publicist's, I simply dislike the timing of it. I mean it's not the kind of discourse that I would particularly like any other time "look I'm an athlete but I'm a woman too!", but in her case I find it particularly sickening. Leave her the fuck alone. I don't care if she likes to put on make-up or not, she should get to do it if she likes it, and it shouldn't tell us anything about whether or not she's "really" a woman.

(Just so we're clear - not annoyed at you, but at this entire thing :)