Meet Maria Patino, The Latino Woman/Man Athlete Who Already Went Through This Ge

[Natasha]

Meet Maria Patino, The Latino Woman/Man Athlete Who Already Went Through This Gender Nonsense Decades Ago

http://anyguey.guanabee.com/2009/08/maria-patino-transgender-athlete
8/21/09

Gender testing for female athletes, like that going on now for Caster Semenya, is nothing new: it's been around since the 60's! And in 1985 it ensnared Spanish hurdler Maria Jose Martinez-Patino, who was stripped of her medals when it turned out she wasn't genetically female.