High Testosterone Levels Found In South African Sprinter Caster Semanya

[Shana A]

Monday, August 24, 2009
High Testosterone Levels Found In South African Sprinter Caster Semanya
posted by Joe

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2009/08/high-testosterone-levels-found-in-south.html

Tests have revealed that South African sprinter Caster Semanya, who was accused of not being female after blowing away the competition at the track and field world finals, has three times the normal level of testosterone in her system. This does not necessarily prove that she has been doping as some women naturally have such a result. But very interestingly, it turns out her coach is the same former East German coach who was once accused of feeding so many steroids to a female athlete that she was "forced" to have sexual reassignment surgery and now lives as a man. More gender tests on Semanya are continuing, much to the outrage of her countrymen, who see racism in the investigation.

[Jay]

I wonder what happened regarding this story!

Thanks for the update.

Poor woman..

Jay

[Randy]

But very interestingly, it turns out her coach is the same former East German coach who was once accused of feeding so many steroids to a female athlete that she was "forced" to have sexual reassignment surgery and now lives as a man.

What? That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. Forced to have SRS?

[Julie Marie]

To the best of my knowledge, three times the normal female levels of T is still much lower than what the lowest normal male levels are.

This whole controversy happened because she "looked" male.  No, we don't judge a book by its cover, do we? 

Julie