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more about #running evilqueenmagda: Any other Jezebels run yesterday? (I did.) Anyone else get chills on 1st Ave with all those screaming people? Anyone else feel like the last couple of... more » Elizabth_Bennet: I'm really confused about the Santhi Soundarajan case. If she is insensitive to testosterone how would she have a demonstrable advantage over other wo... more » JerkoftheMonth is changing her name!: THis is so infuriating. There is no chance that these same women would be tested if they weren't as good as they are, so it really has nothing to do w... more » thesciencegirl wields the truth like a mighty axe.: I guess this answers my question from last week's thread about how sports officials handle athletes with hormonal or genetic variations in sex. Ridic... more » DutchessOfDork: Lance Armstrong is genetically superior for his sport, take away his medals. more » schweppes: I think this is difficult, though, because there isn't some universal medical definition of gender (apparently chromosomes aren't enough) but sports a... more » phedre: When will people realize that sex isn't as simple as an X or Y chromosome? Here's an awesome commentary on Caster Semenya: [sports.espn.go.com] Fro... more » sympathyforthebasementcat: This is absurd. AIS doesn't make you a man! She is a woman, and I think it's unfair for her to be banned from competing because of a y chromosome that... more » debo matar la zombi goldberry83: Good lord, that is beyond ridiculous. I am so damn sick of this gender essentialism; if Soundajaran has androgen insensitivity, that means that she i... more » elephante: Ok, here's what I still don't understand about either case: They were "suspicious she was using performance enhancing drugs." Why, then, did they ask ... more » MagsCO: I lived with female roommates for years and never saw them naked or in the shower. Do these women have some kind of communal locker-room type shower ... more » BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit): World, I hate you today. more » Meangirl.is.for.the.Horde: Let's make male athletes drop their pants too! If they have 'roided their testicles into raisins, we can arbitrarily reassign their sex as well! more » phedre: Does she have a cock bib? A real man would have one. If she doesn't, I say she's good to compete. more » superwoman: this is so upsetting! she's done us (south africans) so proud, and is getting zero press for her amazing achievements! i am irritated as all hell abou... more » phedre: She just won the 800m! 1:55.45. 2 seconds ahead of the nearest competitor. Cue shitshow on letsrun.com and various other crappy websites. I feel so so... more » tankearae: I was hoping this story would end up here. A couple things: While there is precedent for men competing as women (google Stella Walsh, among others)... more » sportz.star: Another wrinkle in the broader story here is that female athletes have in the past, less so now because of better technology, failed doping tests argu... more » Beets.Go.On is the Fat Yogini: A. She might be intersexed, which is more common than people realize, and thus presents the issue with clinging to a binary system of gender classific... more » spunkay: The 18-year-old Semenya is slated to run the 800m for South Africa in tonight's World Championships I'm sorry if I'm missing something, but why on ear... more » -
#identitypolitics
"I Hope Semenya Will Come Out Of This Better Than I Did"
Santhi Soundarajan knows what Caster Semenya is going through, because in 2006, she went through a similar ordeal. "She should not abandon the fight," she says of the South African track and field star. More » -
#gendergames
Coach: Gender Concerns Reasonable Because Runner "Looks Like A Man"
Unfortunately, South African runner Caster Semenya isn't the first exceptional female athlete to have her femaleness questioned. But her coach's comments make her case one of the most upsetting. More » -
#thrillafromwasilla
Sarah Palin Breaks "Flag Code" In Runner's World Magazine
Have you heard? Everyone's favorite governor has an interview published online Tuesday for Runner's World magazine. Alongside inane questions for the former VP hopeful, there is a hilarious and ridiculous photo shoot in which Palin (maybe) disrespects the American flag. More » -
#stepbystep
Running With Cervixes: Women Overcome Hurdles
As recently as the 1970s women were banned from participating in marathons. Now, middle-aged women who were discouraged from the sport when they were younger are taking up running for the first time. More » -
