Athlete fails 'GENDER' test

[FairyTaleOfNewYork]

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[FairyTaleOfNewYork]

did someone see her ding dang doddle?

[expatinscotland]

Oh.
My.
God.

[tiredemma]

did Fatima Whitbread ever undergo any kind of 'Gender test'?

[themoon66]

How can she have passed the test in one country and then failed in another??

[expatinscotland]

What exactly does it mean?

Is she a he?

[BettySpaghetti]

Funnily enough, Tiredemma, thats who sprung to my mind .

I don't understand how the athlete in the link can pass one gender test and fail another?

[FairyTaleOfNewYork]

now thats whats puzzling me as well. how can she pass one year and fail the next? has she had a sex swap op in the last year? does that legally change your gender?

[tiredemma]

as my ds asked me when playing 'Guess Who?'

" Has it got balls?????"

[UnquietDad]

Did they ask her if she left the loo seat up or down? Or which way she struck matches? Or did they get her to put up a shed?

[FairyTaleOfNewYork]

men cant put up sheds, dont you know anything?

[DoesntChristmasDragOn]

He was beaten by a girl in the race though

I guess she could pass and fail a test if one test were rigged in someway.

[Quootiepie]

Maybe she/he took testerone (you know what I mean) which enhances performance, but obviously makes her more a he...??

[jampots]

rofl UQD

[FairyTaleOfNewYork]

how can they rig a test? 'quick luv, tuck it between your legs, they wont notice'

[uwila]

Do men strike matches differently than women?

[DoesntChristmasDragOn]

I assumed it was a blood test rather than a show-us-your-tackle test.

[FestiveFrex]

No matter about Fatima Whitbread, what about that Czech woman, Kratochvilova, 800m runner? She didn't even look like a woman but nobody challenged her when she won Olympic gold.

[FestiveFrex]

See here . Makes Fatima look positively petite and feminine.

[tiredemma]

what? more butch than this???

fatima

[tiredemma]

click along to image 3 ( obviously daley thompson was a geezer)

[FestiveFrex]

LOL! I thought image one was Fatima. But I still think Jarmila was more butch - especially when actually running.

[Hallgerda]

I think there some rare genetic conditions that could lead to a "male" result in a blood test for someone who has female parts and has believed herself to be female all her life. Wasn't there a British athlete caught out by this once?

[DeckthehallsLaDiDaDi]

There is a condition called Testicular Feminisation, the individual is genetically male but their body is insensitive to testosterone, or in a similar condition another hormone. Their testicles never descend from the abdomen, their genitals are female and they develop breasts. They don't develop pubic or underarm hair and they don't have a uterus. They can present as teenage girls who never start their periods but have normal breast development.

[NotQuiteCockney]

There are all sorts of conditions that can result in people being, effectively, between genders. It doesn't have to be deception or drugs.

[nearlythree]

I remember once a male athlete failed a drugs test becuase it showed he was pg - he'd got his dw to give the sample...