South African Caster Semenya's success in track has led some to question her gender.It's not as easy a question as you think, according to the Daily Mail.
One would imagine that sex is something fairly clear-cut: that you are either one or the other.
Reminds me of an old song...It seems even stranger to discover that the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) says that the tests are 'extremely complex', and that the results will not be known for days, even weeks.
Again, this seems to run contrary to common sense. Surely, one would think, determining one's sex is as simple as removing one's underwear and taking a look.
In fact, it can be rather more complicated than that. It is not generally appreciated that gender in humans - and many other species, too - is not just a binary affair, a simple case of being male or female.
While the vast majority of people are clearly either a man or a woman, many others are somewhere between the two - often with tragic consequences.
3 comments:
What gender would that be? Her sex is female. If a book is written about her words relating to the her sex would be in the female gender. Grammatically-speaking, of course!
I can't make sense of it, Arden. The Kinks song makes much more sense.
What is it about Great Britain that produces such good musicians and writers?
He has figure of a female athlete. Saticiral comment
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