Tests show world champion runner Caster Semenya is a hermaphrodite


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The tests on Caster Semenya, not yet publicly released, show the 18-year-old has no womb or ovaries / File​



WORLD athletics is in crisis with tests showing champion runner Caster Semenya is a hermaphrodite - a person with both female and male sexual characteristics.

The tests, not yet publicly released, show the 18-year-old has no womb or ovaries.

The International Association of Athletics Federations is expected to disqualify the South African from future events and advise her to have surgery because her condition carries grave health risks, The Daily Telegraph reports.

And she could be stripped of the gold medal she won in Berlin in last month.

Semenya has three times more testosterone than a normal female.

A source closely involved with the IAAF tests said Semenya had internal testes - the male sexual organs which produce testosterone.
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Testosterone is a male hormone with a primary task of building muscle bulk. It also produces body hair and a deep voice.

It is believed Semenya is unaware the tests identify her as an hermaphrodite.

Only the certainty of a savage backlash from South Africa has so far prevented the IAAF from banning Semenya and revoking her gold medal.

South Africa embraced the feisty teenager after the storm of controversy from Berlin, declaring her "Our girl".

African National Congress MP and National Assembly sports committee chairman Butana Komphela has already lodged a complaint with the United Nations High Commission on Human Rights, accusing the IAAF of racism and sexism.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, a source explained the political and personal sensitivities involved.

"There certainly is evidence Semenya is a hermaphrodite. But the trouble is the IAAF now have the whole ANC and the whole of South Africa on their backs. Everything is going to have to be done absolutely by the book, no question of a challenge to the findings.

"There's all sorts of scans you do. This is why it's complicated. In the past you used to do a gynaecological exam, blood test, chromosome test, whatever. That's why they (the findings) were challenged, because it's not quite so simple.

"So what they do now is they do everything, and then they can say, look - not only has she got this, she's got that and the other.

"The problem for us is to avoid it being an issue now which is very personal - of the organs being a hermaphrodite, of not being a 'real' woman. It's very dramatic."

The IAAF expects to receive the full set of results this week.

When quizzed last week by magazine You, Semenya said: "I see it all as a joke, it doesn't upset me. God made me the way I am and I accept myself. I am who I am and I'm proud of myself. I don't want to talk about the tests. I'm not even thinking about them."

While the IAAF is treating the Semenya case as a health matter, the same South African politicians who denied AIDS was a problem in their country are standing behind their queen of the athletics.

"Of course Caster is a totally innocent victim in this whole affair," the source explained.

"What could she do about it? And the IAAF accepted her entry. So the two parties at fault are the IAAF and especially Athletics SA."
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Bottom line is she didn't cheat or try to put one over on people.
Now they should leave her alone and let her compete without all this crap.
These sport's officials and media types need to crawl on their hand and knee's apologizing to her cause this was a natural thing that she didn't even know about.
 
Who in here called that dude a woman? :emlaugh: :bawling: :emlaugh:

She got male written all over her face, hell. LoL

Semenya has three times more testosterone than a normal female
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Duhhhhhhhhh.... no joke einstein. lol
 
How can they tell she has a penis and a vagina?

Is the article saying that any woman born without a womb or ovaries is a hermaphrodite?

In biological context, a hermaphrodite is an organism that has both male and female reproductive organs. Intersex is a group of conditions where there is a discrepancy between the external genitals and the internal genitals (the testes and ovaries).
 
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Olde Hornet said:
How can they tell she has a penis and a vagina?

Is the article saying that any woman born without a womb or ovaries is a hermaphrodite?

In biological context, a hermaphrodite is an organism that has both male and female reproductive organs. Intersex is a group of conditions where there is a discrepancy between the external genitals and the internal genitals (the testes and ovaries).
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I am going to chalk these questions up to you not having read the article.
 
A poster on one of the news sites summed it up with this comment

"One, there's no such thing as a human hermaphrodite. You are genetically male or female, not both - you ened up with ovaries or testes, not both. This person is genetically male (XY not XX and a genetic analysis would have showed this), which leads to the development of testes. Something has interfered with normal genitalia development before they were even born, creating external genitalia resembling that of a female (female is the default state for external genitalia development) but testes which had not descended from the abdomen. The testes will likely have to be removed as undescended testes have a much higher risk of developing testicular cancer. That said, if Semenya has lived as female, believed she was female, and appears externally female, then there's no reason why she should not continue living as female. She cannot, however, compete in women's athletics as someone who is geneitcally male (and part of that means she likely has three times the muscle fibres as the average female - another benefit of being genetically male)."
 



Dag! Semenya a Hermaphrodite

We were all right. Damn!
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How the hell did somebody not see the penis...:noidea: She "tucking" it?


http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/11/2682824.htm

Gender tests on women's 800 metres champion Caster Semenya reveal that she is a hermaphrodite, according to a leak to News Limited newspapers today.

Sydney's Daily Telegraph says a source close to the testing process has confirmed that Semenya has three times the level of testosterone usually found in a woman, and internal testes instead of ovaries.
 
8 to 5 said:
A poster on one of the news sites summed it up with this comment

"One, there's no such thing as a human hermaphrodite. You are genetically male or female, not both - you ened up with ovaries or testes, not both. This person is genetically male (XY not XX and a genetic analysis would have showed this), which leads to the development of testes. Something has interfered with normal genitalia development before they were even born, creating external genitalia resembling that of a female (female is the default state for external genitalia development) but testes which had not descended from the abdomen. The testes will likely have to be removed as undescended testes have a much higher risk of developing testicular cancer. That said, if Semenya has lived as female, believed she was female, and appears externally female, then there's no reason why she should not continue living as female. She cannot, however, compete in women's athletics as someone who is geneitcally male (and part of that means she likely has three times the muscle fibres as the average female - another benefit of being genetically male)."
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That poster is wrong on pretty much every level.
 
South African Runner a Hermaphrodite

After watching that video of "her" victory run last month, there was no doubt in my mind that "he" wasn't a "she".

How unfortunate to learn this information from the international media.


I feel sorry for "him/her".

WORLD athletics is in crisis with tests showing champion runner Caster Semenya is a hermaphrodite - a person with both female and male sexual characteristics. The tests, not yet publicly released, show the 18-year-old has no womb or ovaries.
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