You run to fast to be a girly

[Miss Demeanour]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/8210471.stm

New world 800m champion Caster Semenya has been asked to take a gender test, according to athletics' governing body.
The International Association of Athletics Federations says it demanded the test three weeks ago amid fears she should not be able to run as a woman.
IAAF spokesman Nick Davies said the "extremely complex, difficult" test results were not due for several weeks.
The South African athletics federation insists it is "completely sure" that Semenya, 18, is a female

But resolving whether a person is male or female is not a simple matter of physical examination - the method originally used by the International Olympic Committee when mandatory gender testing was introduced in 1968 before being phased out on ethical and scientific grounds 10 years ago.

There are numerous "intersex" conditions that do not affect external genital appearance.

If Semenya is found to have an abnormality, the issue will be whether it offers her an unfair advantage. If so, hormone treatment or surgery may be necessary.

There is also a precedent for stripping an athlete of a medal, as was the case with Indian runner Santhi Soundarajan, who lost her 800m silver medal after failing a gender test at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha.

The fact that Soundarajan later attempted suicide underlines the sensitivities involved, and Davies said Semenya's test results would remain confidential .

How can her results remain confidential.... if after the end of all this she maintains her medal or loses that surely will be conclusive  

How horrible this must all be for her  

[Uncle Mort]

I do have my suspicions about 'her' gender, 'she' does has a certain masculine quality about 'her'. 

[Snoopy]

Certainly has a very deep voice.

[Darwins Selection]

How can it be an "extremely complex, difficult" test ?

It would take me about three seconds.

Probably means the doctors are too slow to catch her.

[Miss Demeanour]

I don't think it's just a physical looky looky thing DS - they are talking about chromosome testing and stuff 

[Darwins Selection]

I don't think it's just a physical looky looky thing DS - they are talking about chromosome testing and stuff 

OIC

Science and stuff 

So if the test says she should have meat and two veg but she doesn't, do they flip a coin?

[Miss Demeanour]

According to the IAAF rule book, the medical delegate makes the decision on gender.

In this case the tests will take weeks. And there will be a panel of experts: an endocrinologist, a gynaecologist, an internal medicine expert, a psychologist and a gender expert who will debate the issue of Caster Semenya.


Great -  a debate will decide her gender 
 

[Snoopy]

It all comes down to the combination of chromosomes apparently

[Darwins Selection]

I always thought females would have evolved to run faster.

The need to escape from the likes of Snoopy, combined with no tackle to impede the leg movement should have made them much quicker.

[Miss Demeanour]

What about the lady bumps...they impede everything 

[Snoopy]

What does the team think?
"She" has a deep male voice, some facial hair (apparently) and is built like a man.





IMHO that is a bloke despite the absence of a "lunchpack"!

[Miss Demeanour]

But then Fatima Whitbred was never very feminine.....sometimes you have to sacrifice things for the sake of your art 

[Snoopy]

Without me meat and two veg I don't have an art

[Darwins Selection]

Without me meat and two veg I don't have an art

Not true at all you can, errrr.... um....  . Probably better you keep hold of them.


Oh, I see you are. 

[Snoopy]

Check 'em regular like ~ in fact Mrs S#2 reckons about once every minute.