LinkOut of all the tests one could fail, a gender test is probably most embarrassing. After failing the test, Soundararajan (not to be mistaken for an Indian Soundgarden cover band) refused to comment. Surprisingly, reports say the athlete cleared the gender test at the Asian track and field championship in South Korea last year where she won the silver medal in the 800m. It is not clear how she failed the test most recently at the Asian Games in Doha (maybe they switched a and b?). Despite speculation, Indian officials insist Soundararajan never had a sex change; rather she appeared to have abnormal chromosomes. An official stated that the test revealed more Y chromosomes than allowed.
More than allowed means slightly greater than zero.
As in, maybe one.
One, as in genetically male.
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One such phenomenon is human sex. In all honesty, sex is a little more complicated than "boys have penises and girls have vaginas." Typically, those with sex chromosomes XY develop with primary sexual characteristics of males: testes, higher levels of testosterone, hairier bodies, penchant for sports and steaks, etc. Those with XX sex chromosomes develop as females: ovaries and breasts, higher levels of estrogen, penchant for shopping and baking, etc.
However, in a number of cases, males can be born with an extra X, or XXY, a condition known as Klinefelter's syndrome.
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