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.

The New York Times is reporting that the Beijing Olympics organizers have erected a gender determination lab to test female athletes suspected of being genetically male. "Male" and "female" in this circumstance are defined wholly chromosomally. "The concept has drawn criticism over the years, largely because certain…