Notice the large hands, strong jaw line and big tatas. They tend to have big ones...
Posted on 09/10/2009 10:22:43 AM PDT by pissant
HE controversy over gender row champion runner Caster Semenya deepened today — after reports claimed sex swap tests have shown she is a HERMAPHRODITE.
South African gold-medallist Semenya, 18, has both male and female organs, it was claimed.
And sources close to the International Association of Athletics Federations — who ordered extensive tests on the teen after her amazing 800m win at the World Athletics Championships last month — say the results mean she could still be stripped of her medal.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
The controversy is she has elevated testosterone and many of the physical characteristics of a man and she is competing in a class exclusively set aside for girls. The whole reason we have female classes and male classes is that the top girls don’t run as fast as the top boys - the top girls don’t jump as far as the top boys - the top girls don’t throw as far or as hard .. etc etc etc
Very sad. It’s a difficult situation for someone who surely just wants to enjoy a normal life like the rest of us.
Kind of like we are doing with eligibility requirements for the White House.
Did you see the notes about his brother being with him all his life ~ what a good brother.
How about competing in the Special Olympics since this is a birth defect?
Johnny lived into the 1990s if I recall but he got violently attacked at home by an intruder in the late 1980s (if I recall). He was born without legs but walked on his hands.
curtis is genetically a male (XY chromosomes), but she is physically all female.
when we are conceived, we are all female. at a certain point in the womb, a protein is released that makes males male. if the protein is absent, we stay female (obviously, the sperm carries the Y chromosome).
that is why curtis cannot have kids.
Evidence?
so what I’m now wondering is....you can either have XX or XY right?
So - as far as x’s and y’s go, can it be more “x’ish” or “y’ish” ??
Does it mean genetically your chromosomes say one thing - but something went haywire during actual development?
I feel bad for this person who has been fed to the wolves.
i did find this quote: "The only document that has ever been offered as "proof" was a 1996 op-ed piece in the Baltimore Sun written by William O. Beeman, associate professor of anthropology at Brown University, entitled "What Are You: Male, Merm, Herm, Ferm or Female?" The relevant passage reads as follows:
As a result, there are perhaps millions of XX males and XY females living in the United States today. These are cultural males with male genitalia who are genetically female, and cultural females with female genitalia who are genetically male. The film star Jamie Lee Curtis is one well-known individual who is genetically male, but phenotypically female."
evidently this was deleted from the actual article because the original doctor could not be found. regardless, it would violate doctor/patient privilege.
This isn't something that was discovered over night...
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See this one yet ping?
Notice the large hands, strong jaw line and big tatas. They tend to have big ones...
Hmmmmm
This explains what I see when I look at Manchelle Obama.
What are those big belts REALLY for?
That's certainly the way I see it too, although I'm in no way a scientist, in any way. Irrespective of some anatomical anamoly or chemical/hormonal imbalance, I would think the XX/XY test would be the controlling "test". Bits & Pieces don't matter nearly as much as the genetic make-up, IMHO.
Hormonally or chromosomally? I would think that the latter would be a much more accurate test than the former.
See what I did there? Handsome. Woman.
And like Jaime Lee Curtis, only adopted children.
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