Other than being mad at everybody for leaking the information and all the circus, I am also mad at her national federation and whoever is coaching her. (I know nothing of her background so apologies if my ignorance makes me say stupid things.)

I watched one of the finals she won. It's not like she won by a little bit. She's FAR ahead of the bunch. This is not the Olympics, where there are athletes from every country no matter how good they are. This is the World Championships, where all the best of the best, the fastest of the fastest, are.

Now, if I was a coach with the athlete's best interest in mind, and I knew my athlete was running those kinds of really, really unusual times, I would perhaps have thought about smart ways to address though issues before even sending her to compete at this level. I wouldn't think of her as sort of a "secret weapon" that's just going to go there and win races, wowing the world with amazing times.

I guess I have a bit of a tendency to see things in a medical way sometimes, but I see "running that incredibly fast" as a symptom. I'm not talking about the social aspects of it, just about the health issues associated with many alternative chromosomal arrangements. Considering the underlying medical issues and risks to the person's life (in the long term, not because of the running), I would have considered counseling PRIOR to sending her on the national stage where she would most obviously be made into the object of a circus. I don't think she was in a position to make an informed decision about what she would be exposed to by going to Berlin.

I am not sure how, where, and against whom intersexed people should be racing. The whole idea of men and women categories is indeed antiquated to what we know today about everything in between and beyond. It's rather easy to solve as far as washrooms are concerned, but for sporting events it's a bit more complex. I wonder what the Gay Games do, because obviously they would have had to tackle this issue. (Anyone has info on that?)

I don't usually care for large sporting events, but this could be a good opportunity for gender-bending advocates to come up with some smart proposal to make the world move forward. It won't happen tomorrow but there might be a kernel of revolution in this situation. (I'm such an optimist.)