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Semanya - man or woman?
Before I had even heard of the controversy, I was looking at the Semanya thinking 'omg, she is so a man, surely!!!!" Her body is so masculine but it was more her face which looks exactly like a guys.
It was only after watching her race that I decided to check out online what the controversy was the commentator mentioned thinking it'd be drug related and when I read that it was over her gender, well, I'm not surprised!!!! 
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Erm..... I'm thinking the medical exam is along the lines of The Crying Game?
I've only seen the headlines on the news, but am curious to hear the rest of the story - poor woman, talk about a kick in the pants. Possibly a poor choice of phrase, but can you imagine?
lol Oxy!
and true Atich, not nice if she is female but oooh what a scandal if she isn't!!!
IAAF spokesman Nick Davies said the "extremely complex, difficult" test has been started but that the results were not expected for weeks. The verification requires a physical medical evaluation, and includes reports from a gynecologist, endocrinologist, psychologist, an internal medicine specialist and an expert on gender. "So we're talking about reports that are very long, very time consuming," Davies said.
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Surely the easiest test would be to see if s/he goes balistic if the toilet seat is left up?
hahaha Gertie, I just woke my kittens up from laughing!!
Shame though for her to go through all those tests if she really is a she. Must be horrible.
I know you can get ladies who have XY chromosomes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersexuality
If you are where does that put you in athletics?? It is whats on the outside that counts?
I think the problem is that this type of thing has happened before.
I think it was Sharon Davies who commented that she thought she had once walked into the male changing rooms because she could hear some very deep voices. Turns out to be the East German woman swimmers.
But what if she is a XY girl and has no willy!
Surprisingly, it isn't.
Under IOC regulations competitors must compete under their gender at birth and thier appendages don't come into it.
so is this some kind of genetic thing? apparently tests were requested a couple of weeks ago. However, as Brendan Foster pointed out, you dont just turn up at Berlin and tell them you fancy running. You have to go through all the local, regional and national qualifying competitions and runs to be selected to represent your country: in this case as a woman competitor. It reduces things to a highly embarassing farce that test results are still pending.
i think we should just have a look at pics of her family - for all we know they all look like that
it's what we used to do when i was a kids nurse - you would get kids in who you were absolutely sure had some syndrome or other and then granny would walk in and we would all go "ah right"
she does look masculine - but how does she compare with others of her age and race?, africa is a big country - we are used to seeing north african runners and american black runners, but not black south african runners
surely peope are not stupid enough in this day and age to give athletes testosterone - like the old eastern block countries used to
Appendages - Love it!
I have had few glasses of wine so that might not be as funny as I think it is.
So it's nothing to do with chromosomes - that shut me up.
Not really seen a photo of her before, she is lovely looking.
Where do people between genders come in anletics, I mean people born between genders? Because it does happen and they should of thought of it.
thanks for the link Gertie but in some ways it supports Fosters point as in order to make that run at the Juniors, and presumably in order to qualify for the Juniors in the first place, she had at various points along the way have had to have competed as a woman whatever times she was running before then. Its a total mess.
when i get my eyebrows threaded there are regularly black women in there getting their chins done, it's hardly unusual