The IAAF have confirmed that the sex test row over Athlete Caster Semenya has been concluded that she can keep her gold medal after her father Fatima Whitbread confirmed she was a girl...
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Caster Semenya keeps gold medal after sex test
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Caster Semenya keeps gold medal after sex test
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oops, shoulda been posted in light relief..The cycle of life: born > learn > work > learn > dead. -
This lady would have both male and female privates then.
When I was growing up in Rumania we had a boy at schoool who had 2 cocks. Double Barrelled Zoltan we used to call him.Comment
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Originally posted by bekarovka View PostThis lady would have both male and female privates then.
When I was growing up in Rumania we had a boy at schoool who had 2 cocks. Double Barrelled Zoltan we used to call him.Numbly tolerating the inequality as a way to achieve greater prosperity for all.Comment
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Originally posted by bekarovka View PostThis lady would have both male and female privates then.
When I was growing up in Rumania we had a boy at schoool who had 2 cocks. Double Barrelled Zoltan we used to call him.Comment
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I thought according to the BBC she was man and woman?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8250609.stm
Reports suggest that gender tests on 800m world champion Caster Semenya have shown both male and female characteristics.
The results are still to be examined by a team of experts and it is likely to be a few weeks before the IAAF confirms the reports or announces further detail.
The delay highlights the complexity involved in diagnosing intersex conditions, an umbrella term for a wide range of developmental differences in the reproductive and sexual systems in the body.
How do you define sex?
Peter Bowen-Simpkins, spokesperson for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and an expert in these conditions, explains there are four types of sex.
There is your phenotype, which is what you look like, your psychological sex, which is what you feel like and which usually the same as your phenotype and related to how you have been brought up.
There is also your gonadal sex which is whether you have ovaries or testicles and your chromosomal sex which is what combination of x or y chromosomes you have.Comment
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post.. How do you define sex?
Peter Bowen-Simpkins, spokesperson for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and an expert in these conditions, explains there are four types of sex.
There is your phenotype, which is what you look like, your psychological sex, which is what you feel like and which usually the same as your phenotype and related to how you have been brought up.
There is also your gonadal sex which is whether you have ovaries or testicles and your chromosomal sex which is what combination of x or y chromosomes you have.
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