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Sex test. A running controversy. Why even the doctors aren’t sure that she is not a he? From ABC News headquarters, this is World News with Charles Gibson reporting tonight David Muire. Track and field officials are wrestling with an odd question tonight when is a woman not a woman. This after a series of sensational performances by a South African runner, Caster Semenya. A young woman so fast and so muscular근육이 잘 발달된. Many are now publically questioning is she really a man? John Mckenzi tonight and why doctors say it’s not an easy question.

 

There’s no question Caster Semenya is fast. At the world championships this week, she left her competitors a staggering 2.5 seconds behind and raised even more questions about whether she is really a she, especially with that muscular physique체격 and deep voice. “I know I’m still young. 18 years old.” Back home in South Africa, Semenya grew up playing soccer with the boys, racing the boys, and yes, tease곯리다 for looking like a boy. “Calling her a boy in public didn’t affect her because she was used to being called the boy by her family.”

 

Today, her family insists this 5 foot 7, 180 pound athlete is most definitely a woman. But amateur athletic federations now want proof. And that’s not as easy as you might think. Semenya is undergoing a battery of tests including a physical exam, hormone tests, and a thorough genetic screening. And even that might not be enough to settle the issue. “Sex is actually really complicated and it’s made up of a whole bunch of different components. There’s no one indicator of what makes you male or female.” 1 in roughly every 2,000 children is born as intersex whether genitalia성기 do not correspond to their chromosomes염색체. “We have to get over the fact that within the categories of men and women, there’s natural variation변형 in terms of what’s going on in the body.”

 

There have been questions about track and field athletes before, especially man from former soviet bloc countries deliberately changing or hiding their gender with the use of steroids, so they could compete as women. As for Semenya, results expected soon should help determine whether she is indeed a woman and allows her to compete in the Olympics where people may finally focus more on her speed than her sex. John Mckenzi, ABC News, New York.

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