Runner Caster Semenya takes gender test -- she is intersexed; MSM reporting is offensive
by: Pam Spaulding
Thu Sep 10, 2009 at 20:15:00 PM EDT

http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/12916/runner-caster-semenya-takes-gender-test-she-is-intersexed

(Autumn reported on this story in the This and That roundup below, citing LGBT news sources, but I wanted to front page it because of the awful reporting in the mainstream press and reader reaction)

In an not-surprising sensationalized article in the NY Daily News, it is reported that the South African athlete Caster Semenya, who won a gold medal in Germany in August and created a buzz at the time about her masculine appearance, was ordered to prove that she is a woman. What is not surprising is the result of the test -- she's intersexed -- and the disgusting and inane reaction to it. How about this reporting, using the widely-seen-as-offensive term hermaphrodite: