Report: Indian Runner Fails Gender Test

[Okieflyer]

An Indian runner who won a silver medal in the women's 800 meters in the Asian Games this month has failed a gender test and is expected to be stripped of the medal, according to reports Monday.
Santhi Soudarajan took the gender test in Doha, Qatar, after the victory.

The test reports sent to the Indian Olympic Association on Sunday said Soudarajan "does not possess the sexual characteristics of a woman," The Times of India reported. The test was administered by a medical commission set up by the games' organizers.

There are no compulsory gender tests during events sanctioned by the International Association of Athletics Federation, but athletes can be asked to take a gender test. The medical evaluation panel usually includes a gynecologist, endocrinologist, psychologist, and an internal medicine specialist.

Dr. Manmohan Singh, chairman of the medical commission of the Indian Olympic Association told the Indian Express newspaper that the Olympic Council of Asia had been informed of the results of Soudarajan's gender test.

Sports officials in the athlete's home state of Tamil Nadu said that they have no information on her whereabouts.

"If the reports are true, then it is very sad and extremely disappointing," her coach, P. Nagarajan, told the Indian Express.

Link (http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/12/18/D8M321981.html)

It's getting pretty bad when we have resort to testing.:rolleyes:

I probably shouldn't have used the word "pretty".:(

[TexasLidig8r]

Maybe her sideburns were the first clue.

http://xtramsn.co.nz/homepage2/imageView/0,,6714329,00.jpeg

[Partial Qualifier]

It's a MAN, BABY!!

[Mongo]

Imagine running really fast for 800 meters with your wee wee tucked, give it the medal just on that fact alone

[TheHumanAlphabet]

Does it have a wee-wee or is it a hermaphrodite?

Some of those South Asian Indians can be pretty fugly, but that is one ugly dood!!!

[Okieflyer]

You just wanted to say "hermaphrodite" because your name is ThrHumanAlphabet! :D

[Okla-homey]

As an somewhat interesting aside, I learned in "family law" that the law on post-surgical transgendered persons' right to marry under their "re-assigned gender" varies by jurisdiction within the US.

Some states say its okay, some insist that a person is the gender indicated by their DNA and thus post-surgical transgendered persons retain the gender of their chromosomes and may not marry a person who shares their chromosomal gender.

[TopDaugIn2000]

Indians do have the smallest ernies. so I've been told.

[OCUDad]

Indians do have the smallest ernies. so I've been told.Wasn't it Gandhi who said "a good workman never blames his tools"?

[yermom]

i would think all the hormones necessary to complete the change would disqualify someone, assuming they weren't born with both organs or something

[C&CDean]

C'mon people, I mean seriously, does anybody really care what happened at the asian games?

[Okieflyer]

C'mon people, I mean seriously, does anybody really care what happened at the asian games?

D**m it! It was on the internet!:mad:

[OUstudent4life]

Actually, there are a couple of reports of this happening "by accident"...most notably, it happened in the Olympics...

A guy doesn't develop "man" characteristics in utero, grows up told he's a girl by EVERYBODY (including doctors), starts competing, and when they do the genetics test in the Olympics, (s)he was stripped of a medal. There's some developmental reason that I don't recall from Embryo class, but it was pretty freaky.

[TopDaugIn2000]

Wasn't it Gandhi who said "a good workman never blames his tools"?

um, yeah, you guys keep telling yourselves that..... :rolleyes: :D :rolleyes:

[dolemitesooner]

yOU CANT GET ASAIN WOTHOUT THE ACRONYM FOR ALLEN IVERSION