Posted on 09/10/2009 10:22:43 AM PDT by pissant
Internal testes?
I guess this makes him more aerodynamic.
Would he/she vote for Obama ?
And you wouldn’t need a cup playing baseball.
Week-old baby undergoes sex change operation
9 September 2009, 10:22pm IST
RAJKOT: Seven days after a boy was born to a city-based family, doctors have medically proved that the baby is a girl. The baby went through an
operation on Wednesday for a sex change.
After a sonography, city-based doctor Dr Atul Hirani confirmed that it was a baby girl. The baby had male genital organs but female sexual organs inside the body.
The family realized that something was amiss and took the baby to a paediatrician and after various tests. After consultation and discussion with doctors, they were convinced to take a practical decision for the better future of the baby. Had the family chosen to keep the baby as it is, it could have led to psychological and social problems for the baby. The family belongs to middle class strata.
A team of doctors lead by Dr Rohit Thakkar and five others, including plastic surgeon Dr Girish Amlani, urologist Dr Sanjay Popat, general surgeon Dr Yogesh Raichura, paediatrician Dr Nayan Kalavadiya and Dr Sukhdev Chandarana, operated upon the seven-day-old baby for genital reconstruction in a three-hour operation. The baby will be able to live a normal life as a female child.
Does that make her an intrasexual?
“If I was a hermaphrodite I wouldn’t leave the house much less run.”
She can’t help it. I don’t think she should have to stay in the house all her life.
OTOH, women can’t compete fairly with her.
I have heard that Jamie Lee Curtis was a herm as well. Anyone else hear this, or is it an urban legend.
“She achieved this as an individual, what is the controversy?”
Fair competition. She runs in women’s events. Women can’t compete fairly against men. It’s not her fault. It’s just the way things are.
But truth is being “treated as and living as a woman...” doesn’t really make that so does it? Of course not, I do not know what category such an athelete should be placed in but this person certainly has advantages that other females could acquire through illegal drug use ( illegal for the sport).
I think it comes down to the hormones, not the presence or absence of particular parts.
I am not sure how to be fair to this person. It seems as though, if you are born with unusual chromosome configurations, even if they are to your advantage in sports, you can’t compete. Others born with great physical advantage in sports do get to compete and often have great careers.
But to have her compete against women is an unfair advantage. Hormonally, she is male. And to have her compete against men does not seem right, either.
I agree. Doesn’t sound like there was intention to cheat and indeed, she may not have violated any rules. There’s been a lot of silly and immature remarks about a sad story.
I’m not sure how much she know of her condition, seems her family raised her as female. She’s a college student who likes to run fast. Classify her as best you can and let the other competitors deal with it. Doesn’t seem likely she will be able to bear offspring. She trains hard, let her reap the rewards of the gifts she was given.
FWIW I believe hormonally she qualifies as female. At least that’s what I understood from the comment that her urine test results, while showing an unusually high level of male hormones, still were within the range considered female.
Did you miss the entire Golf issue just last year? However they have said they should compete in every sport.
And genetics as well. Look this person has high levels of testosterone and yet within “normal” range for females. May well have extra chromosomes we will see. It still does not address the issue of what category such a person should compete in when others do not have that ‘advantage’. Testosterone and other such hormones ( ynthetic and other wise) are banned from use. Athletes are stripped of medals and titles all the time for this. This will continu8e to be a thorny question and I am not sure that the international governing bodies of various sports are equipped to deal ith it.
Which is why proper classification for this runner is being questioned.
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