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From BBC.com:

Analysis prior to the World Athletics Championships and the 18-year-old’s big improvement prompted calls for a gender test from the sport’s governing body.

It was made public only hours before the South African, who has been backed by her nation, won the 800m in Berlin.

A high level of the hormone does not always equate to a failed drugs test.

But the news will only increase speculation surrounding Semenya, who arrived back in South Africa to a rapturous welcome on Tuesday.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/dacrush012/ dacrush012

    leave the “girl” alone.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/new_year_new_things/ new_year_new_things

    thats either a man or a real ugly woman.. honestly though.. it wouldn’t surprise me if in three or four months to wake up and see on the news that she was a man.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/babytonnie/ babytonnie

    well what do they expect the woman looks like she lives in the gym….I’m sure I wasn’t either day dreaming or having one of my dozing sessions when my Biology teacher mentioned that excessive exercise did build muscle but it also diminished estrogen and increased testosterone levels in a woman.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Anthropological/ Anthropological

    if she was a man… it was a DRAG race!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CARA-MELLO/ CARA-MELLO

    we’ve all seen woman with athletic muscular bodies, HOWEVER, 99% of these women looked like women in the face. most people are not seeing anything remotely feminine with this “being”

  • http://newsone.com/entertainment/sports-entertainment/semenya-gender-inquiry-angers-south-africans/ Semenya Gender Inquiry Angers South Africans | NewsOne

    [...] RELATED: Semenya’s Testosterone Levels 3X Higher Than Normal [...]

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Mellowyellow4835/ Mellowyellow4835

    The woman may be a morfoydyke, when I was seven years old I was playing with a frined of mine and shey sahys come on I have to go in the house and feed and change my sick sister. I was amazed at what I saw. I ran home and told my mother and never went over to play again. We don’t have any ideas how these people are and how they live. Semenya looks like a woman and a man. I hope she is a woman so she can keep her gold

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/kandiman42/ kandiman42

    I HOPE THEY BURN HIS DUMB ASS AND TAKE THE MEDAL BACK AND PUT HIS DUMB ASS IN A RACE WITH MEN SO HIS DUMB ASS CAN BE HUMILIATED…THIS IS JUST A COVER UP FOR THE GAY COMMUNITY SO THEY CAN DO WHAT THEY WHAT TO DO JUST BECAUSE THEY DECIDE THEY DONT WANT TO BE A MAN. WHAT A DUMB ASS AND ANYONE DEFENDING THIS DUMB ASS IS JUST AS DUMB AS THIS DUMB ASS

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/monhol/ monhol

    i think this is dude sorry. this not a hermephrodite. this word may come from hermes and afrodite who are said to have a baby with both sexes.. but this is a man this is not the first time a country pulled some mess like this for a medal… hitler did the same thing in the olympics. he had a man pose as a lady to win an all women’s race so that the aryan nation supremacy will live on in his eyes. the man was a very ugly woman and it was found later she WAS a he and was stripped of the medal. this has nothing to do with gay or straight because they don’t play that gay stuff in africa.. oh yeah it exist but not out in the open. no one wants to lose their life.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BigBlueBeauty/ BigBlueBeauty

    How do you tell if it is a woman? The simple look and see between the legs…If the person has something that hangs and swangs it is a man…Hello..Genetic and biological testing to see if this is a woman is not needed because she could be a woman with an XXY abnormality.She could also be have a hormonal problem that can cause her to have the athletic build and male characteristics.There are women with deep voices like men and men with voices like women.She could have also taken steroids..Hell they need to check all of the contestants and not just her. Those other chicks look like they have something swanging…This has nothing to do with the fact she look male it has more to do with her race and nationality than anything because looking at this picture all I see is white women running with her…They were also mad that this black female beat their asses so bad that she made a world record…They only have problems when black people win races…Black people have to tested to make sure they are genuine and honest but when the other contestants don’t have to prove their sex this is not fair to the winner of the race.If genetic testing wasn’t a requirement to start the race it shouldn’t be a a requirement to determine a winner..

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MARRIED_4LIFE1/ MARRIED_4LIFE1

    OK…so is she a she or is she a he? LoL, you know yu want to know. Shameful that it’s come to this, but wouldn’t it be a mess if she wasn’t a she? I say if she is indeed a female…since she beat their azz’s SUE their azz’s!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/newdawn31907/ newdawn31907

    In the picture above she looks like a woman. None ofthe women in that pic have breast. None of the women have very feminine bodies. They are all quite muscular. The only thing that sets her apart is her short hair and her dark skin, while the other woman have long blond hair. I bet, if you shaved the white women’s hair, they would look like men as well. So this may be a case of racial discrimination. Maybe they are testing her because she is black and she has set a world record. I would not put it past teh Olympics. And even if she is a hermaphrodite and doesn’t realize it. Should she be stripped of her medal? If she has an extra male chromosome but no outward male genitals or no signs of an operation, then does she deserve to lose her medal? Any of those women could be hermaphrodites or have a genetic imbalance. They all look like men to me. I just hope this situation works it way out.

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