South African Teen Who Won 800-Meter Women's Gold Asked to Undergoe "Gender Testing" - Video 8/20/09

Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | August 20, 2009 | BrianinMO

[Federalist Patriot]

Here is a video report on the controversy over whether South African teenager Caster Semenya is actually a female - important because she just won the Gold Medal for the 800-meter World Championship race in Berlin. She won the race by a massive 2.5 seconds. A "gender test" has been ordered. At the end of the video, Semenya was asked directly about the accusation she was "born a man":

"The South African teenager caught up in the gender-test flap has received her gold medal for winning the 800-meter win at the world championships.

Caster Semenya won by a huge margin Wednesday despite revelations that the world track body asked her to undergo gender testing.

When asked while walking into the medal ceremony how she was feeling, Semenya smiled and said, "Good, man." . . . (Watch Video)

[allmendream]

The only examples I can think of (of a born female who would fail a barr body test) are an XY who is female due to defective testosterone receptors, and a X0 female who only has one X chromosome.

Neither one is likely to be able to compete successfully against a woman athlete due to the physical problems associated with their genetic defect.

[RegulatorCountry]

XXY would fit the bill.

[Bodleian_Girl]

What about people who are mosaic?

[Hot Tabasco]

Well thats the way that I want it to stay
And I always want it to be that way for my lola
Lo-lo-lo-lo lola
Girls will be boys and boys will be girls
Its a mixed up muddled up shook up world except for lola
Lo-lo-lo-lo lola

Well I left home just a week before
And Id never ever kissed a woman before
But lola smiled and took me by the hand
And said dear boy Im gonna make you a man

Well Im not the worlds most masculine man
But I know what I am and Im glad Im a man
And so is lola
Lo-lo-lo-lo lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola
Lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola lo-lo-lo-lo lola

[Hot Tabasco]

Semen Ya or Semen No? I ain’t gonna be the judge.........

[allmendream]

They would PASS a barr body test for female, but would look like and compete as men, but not very well.

Kleinfelter syndrome people are not exactly Olympic caliber athletes.

I was wondering what kind of chromosome abnormality would lead to a female who could compete but wouldn't’ pass a barr body, not what kind of male wouldn't be able to compete but would pass a barr body test.

XXY doesn't fit the bill.

[allmendream]

Can a mosaic human be part male and part female? As long as part of the cheek that was swabbed had female cells the person would pass a barr body test (although the male part of the mosaic might produce more testosterone, which could lead to a competitive advantage).