When someone is raised female and the genes say XY

http://www.centredaily.com/living/health/story/1502920.html
SETH BORENSTEIN
9/11/09

WASHINGTON —  It's the birth defect people don't talk about. A baby is born not completely male or female. The old term was hermaphrodite, then intersex. Now it's called "disorders of sexual development." Sometimes the person with the problem doesn't even know it and finds out in an all too public way.

hat's been the painful plight of a few female athletes through history. And apparently that's the situation for South African track star Caster Semenya.

Two Australian newspapers reported Friday that gender tests show the world champion athlete has no ovaries or uterus and internal testes that produce large amounts of testosterone. The international sports federation that ordered the tests wouldn't confirm the reports.

The article is well written and educational for anyone who wants to understand the situation better.  Maybe those dopes who plastered her name all over the media should have read this before destroying the poor girl's life.

Julie

It's so sad - nobody seems to have learned any lessons from the last time...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/athletics/8250469.stm#id8250000/8250500/8250529-audio