Runner a hermaphrodite?

[Cocoanut Koala]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2631482/Runner-is-a-hermaphrodite.html

"Semenya is claimed to have NO womb or ovaries — and has internal testes, the male sexual organs which produce testosterone."

coco

[Freya]

I hope she gets to keep her medal.

[Mulch]

shes 18

this was a horrible traumatic way to humiliate her with something she herself prolly didnt know

fuck the whole organization for not keeping this shit private in the first place

totally evil in my book

[Freya]

Agreed. She was raised a woman, probably with no knowledge of anything different. (I'm speculating, can't know for certain) She won fairly. All women have some level of testosterone in them. It would be unfair of them to take away a medal she won fairly, IMHO.

[Asher Bertrand]

Not exactly a paper with a sterling reputation. I didn't find mention of it in other publications. Not saying it ain't true, but I'm not taking it as gospel, either. In any case, intersex conditions aren't as rare as many think, affecting as many as 1 percent of all births.

[Textured Surface]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2631482/Runner-is-a-hermaphrodite.html

"Semenya is claimed to have NO womb or ovaries — and has internal testes, the male sexual organs which produce testosterone."

coco

In light of this news, I find her name rather ironic.
I agree with the others, I hope she gets to keep her medal.

[Govi]

Use of the passive voice in the Sun story is a lousy journalistic trick, worse than "an anonymous source;" "Semenya is claimed to have NO womb or ovaries" It sounds like the word of Truth! Bah.

Anyway, if she is a hermaphrodite, does that mean she's banned from competition? Or just that she can't compete with women? If she is forced to compete with men, will she be forced to share toilets and locker space with men? Just how far are we going to subdivide ourselves? How silly are we going to get?

Even if competitions were by weight class instead of sex, people would game the system, weighing the most beneficial weight in a class--and why not?--to go FTW. And there are still factors like the fact that testosterone doped persons (mostly men) have more muscle at any weight, on average, then do women. But a very few men are resistant to the effects of testosterone and so have developed to be anatomical (but sterile) female persons. Where will such a woman compete? And a man who is transformed surgically and hormonally into a woman? Or a woman transformed to a man?

[Richard Waveington]

Not exactly a paper with a sterling reputation. I didn't find mention of it in other publications. Not saying it ain't true, but I'm not taking it as gospel, either. In any case, intersex conditions aren't as rare as many think, affecting as many as 1 percent of all births.

yea, this the paper that printed a story saying Liverpool fans where pissing on the Police and the dead during the Hillsborough Disaster... I wouldn't use it to start a fire... only idiots read it.