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Is she really a HE? Doubts raised over sex of gold medal favourite before World Championship race
Daily Mail ^ | 3:46 PM on 19th August 2009 | Stewart Maclean

Posted on 08/19/2009 9:08:51 AM PDT by null and void

Edited on 08/19/2009 10:09:13 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

The gold medal favourite in tonight's women's 800m World Athletics Championships race is today facing claims that she is really a man.

South African Caster Semenya, 18, is set to race in tonight's final in Berlin after sailing through a semi-final on Monday in her first major international sporting competition.

But the teenage sensation has sparked controversy over her strikingly muscular physique, and today insiders claimed she would be gender tested following the final in Berlin.

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Doubt: South Africa's Caster Semenya on Monday. She is today facing claims that she is actually a man

South African athletics chiefs furiously denied the claims and stated Semenya was definitely female.


Semenya, right, is literally flying, both feet off the ground, as she crosses the finish line ahead of Jennifer Meadows (L) of Britain during the semi final on Monday night

Meanwhile the teenager's coach told South African media she was aware of the controversy surrounding her.

Michael Seme told South Africa's News24 website: 'We understand that people will ask questions because she looks like a man. It's a natural reaction and it's only human to be curious.

'People probably have the right to ask such questions if they are in doubt.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: athletics; genderbender; semenya; sports; transsexual
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To: null and void

Her / his shorts are much different than those worn by the competition.


21 posted on 08/19/2009 9:24:03 AM PDT by texteacher
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To: texteacher

That’s to prevent flopout...


22 posted on 08/19/2009 9:25:06 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 210 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: null and void

But wait! According to official liberal dogma, you are whatever sex you want to be! Testing is no good, because your chromosomes mean nothing.

Now for reality. Chromosomes do tell a person’s sex. It can not be changed by operations or hormones.


23 posted on 08/19/2009 9:27:15 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: null and void

"He look like a man"

24 posted on 08/19/2009 9:27:39 AM PDT by Cooter
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To: r9etb

It’s still cuter than Rachel Maddow.


25 posted on 08/19/2009 9:28:12 AM PDT by Callahan
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To: null and void

Wouldn’t She-Ra change clothes with the women?
922
they would notice or be very suspicious, wouldn’t they?


26 posted on 08/19/2009 9:28:31 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: null and void

One way to find out...

Pull down her genes


27 posted on 08/19/2009 9:29:09 AM PDT by Fresh Wind ("Prosperity is just around the corner." Herbert Hoover, 1932)
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged

How do you make a hormone?


28 posted on 08/19/2009 9:29:34 AM PDT by Anti-Kenyan
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To: r9etb

In the face “it” kinda looks like Bubba from Forest Gump!


29 posted on 08/19/2009 9:29:40 AM PDT by JD91
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged
If there's a Y chromosome the game is over.
30 posted on 08/19/2009 9:30:46 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Vendome

Assuming all the original equipment in intact.

Even then, if s/he had small cox as a child...


31 posted on 08/19/2009 9:30:52 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 210 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: trisham
This is what an overly muscular scary female athlete is supposed to look like:


32 posted on 08/19/2009 9:31:13 AM PDT by Callahan
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To: Anti-Kenyan

Don’t pay her?

Put sand in her Vaseline?


33 posted on 08/19/2009 9:31:31 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 210 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: Vendome

Well you are getting faster.

That took only 6 minutes.


34 posted on 08/19/2009 9:31:49 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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To: Callahan
I'm pretty sure that one is female...
35 posted on 08/19/2009 9:32:32 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 210 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: Callahan

Wow, she has a back porch just like Michelle’s!


36 posted on 08/19/2009 9:34:30 AM PDT by Fresh Wind ("Prosperity is just around the corner." Herbert Hoover, 1932)
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To: null and void

Well, she’s wearing pink socks.


37 posted on 08/19/2009 9:35:23 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: null and void

Wouldn’t be the first ...

http://srocespodogona.blox.pl/2009/04/Wybierz-maskotke-Eurobasketu.html

Anyone remember the runner Jarmila Kratochvilova? World record holder in the women’s 800 for many years. Picture about two-thirds of the way down the page. Be prepared to cover your eyes.


38 posted on 08/19/2009 9:35:50 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (You're either in or in the way.)
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To: r9etb
these are not a girls leg


39 posted on 08/19/2009 9:36:17 AM PDT by boxerblues
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To: Deb
Well, she’s wearing pink socks.

Hey, I really dig those socks. I want some like that.

40 posted on 08/19/2009 9:36:30 AM PDT by Allegra ( Socks)
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