Quote Originally Posted by KnottedYet View Post
Am I the only woman on this thread who ran competitive track, broke records by large margins, and got mistaken for a boy?

Is it understandable that I would see the unfairness in Semenya's situation?
It's completely understandable, and I always had really long hair, so being mistaken for a boy never happened, and I only run if big hairy predators are chasing me.

I find it highly unfair that they would announce any of this publicly... If they want to test her sex privately, that would be between them and her...

But to question the sexuality of a 17 year old girl worldwide is beyond ridiculous, and the sort of thing that I hope they have to pay punitive damages for eventually.

When I was typing on here that I remember learning that they did genetic testing on all olympic athletes in high school biology, I remembered the other thing we "learned" That Jamie Lee Curtis was XXY....

I went ahead and googled that before writing it, and apparently while it is a widespread rumor that is taught in many medical schools as fact, there is no actual proof of that statement or anything like that. However, once the rumor got started, it just spread and is blithely accepted as fact...