5 athletes fail gender test

For more than a year, officials in Beijing have been designing a special laboratory to determine the sex of any athletes taking part in this year's Olympic games. "Suspected athletes will be evaluated from their external appearances by experts and undergo blood tests to examine their sex hormones, genes and chromosomes for sex determination," says Professor Tian Qinjie. The tests will not be conducted on every female athlete, but will be required if serious doubts have been raised about an individual competitor - invariably one competing in the women's events. "The aim is to protect fairness at the games while also protecting the rights of people with abnormal sexual development," he says.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/jul/30/olympicgames2008.gender




My question is this: Why bother having seperate male and female catagories if they allow for males to be classified as females?

A sign of the times. Males with gender identity disorder, females with gender identity disorder.

My nephew's wife is pregnant, and they just anounced it with much ado. I think to myself... "why in the HELL would ANYONE want to bring someone into this world NOW?"

This world is a shit hole now and getting worse. "I" wouldn't want to be newborn now. Shit... I'm damn glad I was born 53 years ago as it is. I've seen better days.

Nah, this has been going on for years. Google Irina and Tamara Press - but avert your eyes, talk about fugly!