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  • Simple chromosomal testing will give you the answer. Does she have XY or XX sex chromosomes. That's it. 

  • Stop the video at 1:45. Look at its crotch. there is a pad there that looks like you could hide mans junk behind it.

    This guy has duped every sucker out there! LOL!

  • The Olympics are for all athletes; male, female, intersex, even bionic. No one should be excluded from the games because of the way they were born. The IAAF has to clearly specify in which field (male or female) intersex athletes are allowed to compete at the international level. They can't ban them unless there is unfair advantage to competing in both fields. Ironically South Africa has both high profile cases of a bionic and intersex athletes.

  • omg 8 seconds!?!?!? no way

  • skrew every1 that thinks shes a man..dont hate because our country holds the record!!

  • semen? ya

  • i have masculine feature, but i am 100% female, if i gym for 3 months i will look as buff as a dude, dat does not make me a man.i go througn the sam shit as every woman in the world every month. no man can do dat. so if a man has more female hormones should he be band from running with other men, here is wat if femal body parts are working as it should and her unusual hormone balance is natural then let her be if not then thats cheating. if she is intersex then let the dominant sex prevail.

  • @CCfanatic she has balls inside him/her

  • @TpayneD But she has a vagina... not a penis, which makes her a woman

  • @daniel355273...and you know this by...how?

  • @wetweasel56 She is a SHE

  • @daniel355273 ....just as I thought, your opinion only.

    He is fooling a lot of easily fooled people but he doesn't fool me.

  • I am sure she's a woman. My b/friend carried her on his shoulders after the race and he said he definitely didn't feel a penis there.

  • Wow... It's an easy solution; there has to be an accepted "range" in regards to hormone levels and physiology for atheletes who would compete as "women"... The problem is that what if she didn't know she had these "hormonal issues" in the first place? She couldn't be accused of cheating is she was unaware... It puts the IOC in the uncomfortable position of wading into the issue of gender and blended-gender.

    I feel bad for Caster though. Her birth has created a lifelong issue for her.

  • @BigBlue0002 Well first off gender and sex are not the same thing. Gender is how you wish to present yourself, sex is what you're born with. Fortunately there are no hard and fast laws as to what gender one wishes to present as and compete. If a male athlete wishes to present as effeminate he can, no questions as to sex will be raised, but should a woman wish to present as masculine she will be challenged. It's all about sexism and there are laws against that.

  • @XXYforLIFE Thank you for your illuminating insight and unique perspective. Gender IS different from sex... So, in the universal-sense, gender is irrelevant. The issue of biology is the sole qualifier. Sex and gender is divisible. Absolutely. I agree... I probably wouldn't have till now. Although, I disagree with the "double standard" in regards to a man being "challenged". Caster's situation is very unique... I don't think the inverse has happened; ie. a male athelete who's really a woman.

  • @BigBlue0002 Not quite. In my most recent video I refer to an article published a few days ago in the New York Times, Sports section, by Alice Dreger. The IOC and IAAF have determined a policy on who can compete based on testosterone availability. So a woman with very high or male levels will be required to take medical steps to lower her level to female IF she has the ability to use testosterone & she can compete. I think they've done a good job finally. Appearance no longer matters.

  • @XXYforLIFE Agreed... appearance shouldn't matter. It's scientific. But, culturally, this will be a "pill" to swallow. Because "looks are everything" to some people and the "appearance" will mean more than the substance. Unfortunately, society isn't "universally enlightened" enough to separate people for who they are rather than what they look like or what people think they should be based on what they look like. I look forward to how the IOC and the IAAF (maybe the NCAA) deal with this.

  • That is a mutant..so should compite with mutants only(transgenders) and not with normal people.

  • Semen ya? 

  • this is a mann he has no titis

  • her last name has the word "semen" in it. ......do the math.

  • @asenseofhate FUCKING HYSTERICAL.

  • Pfft.. What's with the 'Scientific testing?' Just ask the damn kid to drop her pants..

  • The winning advantage in the final was so great that it is obvious that because of her so called gender she has a unfair advantage.

    I would feel deeply annoyed as a woman athlete if Semenya was allowed to compete in the future.

    Its not Semenyas fault being born the way she is but using it to her advantage and becoming incredibly rich in the process is very dishonest.

  • Blimey this teenager has got a packet

    A chick with a dick

    Wow really playing by the athletic rules.

  • 0:57 the contract is ovious his body is different

  • Who does she have such a long thights ?

  • easy check if she has a penis. 

  • most of the women look like men in atheletic championship

  • @paskarbis

    Agreed but they do not talk like one like Semenya

  • id say she has some kind of intersex condition,but that doesnt make her a man!she cant help the way she was born,and she identifies as female.

  • @jxxxjppp

    Yes but what if she is 70% man and 30% woman clearly she should not be in a womans only race when due to her body composition she has a huge advantage performance wise over the rest of the field.

    As a man Usain Bolt would not be allowed to compete in the womens 100m because he would win every time due to his raw masculine power.

    Semenya is twisting athletic rules to her advantage and becoming very rich in the process.

    Totally unfair to all women athletes born 100% Woman

  • @llandudnoboy you have a point,but its highly doubtful she is 70%man,30%woman.probably more likely the other way around.As it is, track and field,and other sports are absolutely riddled with drugs.Steroids,human growth hormones,Epo.Plenty of top leval female athletes have adams apples,muscles on muscles,masculine jaws.I for one believe that its impossible to break a world record without chemical help.is semenya any different?she looks no more or less femenine than maria mutola did.

  • @jxxxjppp

    I was just thinking about Mutola who certainly looked pretty butch and mascelin.

    It was Semenyas winning margin that i found hard to contemplate.

    When you get to the final of the World Championships with the cream of womens athletes in that race even in Mutolas era you never won the race by such a huge margin.

    Mutola won it by possible 10meters at most not Semenyas 80+m margin.

    Semenyas body composition has clearly given her a unfair advantage over the rest of the field.

  • @llandudnoboy Mutola still had woman's voice cause she didn't go through male puberty (even with all the roids) like Caster did. Yep HE did

  • @xanyxxxx

    Mutola was a muscular due to weight training and supreamly fit Woman winning many Championship races and setting World Records but she remains 100% woman and won all her races fairly and squarely.

    Semenya on the other hand is not 100% a woman and therefore should not be in a womans only race.

    Its no fault of hers that she has been born the way she is but she should not be reaping the riches of Championship races when clearly she is not a complete woman .

  • @llandudnoboy But what about the fact that Sumenya is still well within the world record? Does that mean the WR holder is unfairly genetically advantaged? On that basis, Bolt should not compete because he's genetically better than the other men he competes with. Winning in sports is not always down to skill, luck or chance but often down to being some kind of genetic 'freak' where you are naturally stronger or more powerful than your opponents so you can't ban someone for genetic endowment.

  • @ianhargreaves80

    I believe Usain Bolt is 100% Male and with a stride length approaching nearly six feet and the ability to go with it few athletes are able to compete with him.

    Sumenya is neither Male or Female but somewhere in between having been born with a dick but physicaly in a womans body.

    She or he should not be allowed to compete in a single sex race because her or his gender is open to question.

  • its called a hermorphadite born with a vagina and penis and the parents choose which to keep lets say the want the kid to be a girl then they take off the penis and put a lot of female hormones it happens to 1 in 500 children i saw it on CNN :0

  • I would like to see those people's faces when she marries and becomes pregnant....

  • Yes she's a woman. See how easy that was!

  • Is not that caster is too manly, it's that the other girls are too flimsy.

  • it´s a man!!!,,,look 0:16 his muscles and his dick,

  • hi

    you need to google intersex

    and you need to realise that whilst you label this stranger of you,caster,a definite man!

    i label you and most people as intersex

    because as an xxy chromosomed person,i totally understand the realities that this world is not just male and female

    enjoy the discoveries you are about to make

    all for one and one for all

  • A woman? No womb or ovaries, internal testes present, three times the normal female level of testosterone levels in her body. Want to talk about fairness, how fair is it to the other female competitors? This case really shows the worst in people and how narrow-minded many people truly are, especially South African politicians playing the race card - damn you people are sad and have absolutely no class nor any ability to handle such a difficult and unusual situation. Selfish and ignorant.

  • a man?me?

    why?

    because i have a penis

    and because i have xy chromosomes!

    how do you know how many chromosomes i have!?

    how did you not know that i dont produce enough testosterone?

    you dont you didnt

    but hopefully you are going to learn some important facts about life on earth through all of this

    peace be with you all always

  • she's  a women

  • Yes HE is...

  • you are intersexed too!

  • we are all intersexed in a way

    each body and each mind has varying degrees of masculine and feminine traits

    ought we not just stop labelling humans as either just male or either just female

    why does it matter what sex or gender someone is!

    why is it truly necessary in 2009

  • So why is the competition splitted in two? One race for women, and one for men. How would you do it?

    Would any of the female competitors stand any chance in front of Ussain Bolt?

  • interesting question! the 2nd one i mean! how would i do it!? well.....i would love to personally race in a race with the majority being low testosteronised people! seeing as i dont produce sufficient testosterone naturally i would like to race against people who were similar its high time that we recognise that a simple classification of either male or female is just not specific enough we have trans men and trans women what happens there??-oh yeah-cant race the intersex olympics! lol ciao4now
  • iam 100% woman so kiss my fat womanly ass ok.... she's a girl

    and has been one all her life some test cant change that

  • actually caster is caster

    and you are you

    and its a fact that many -technical-"women"(people generally with vaginas but not always---eg:transwomen!)

    who have AIS (look that up if you are unaware)

    do not look stereotypically female.

    youngsaint,your aggressive defensive reply gives me ammunition to say that your fat womanly ass may be feminine but your attitude is masculine--hot headed and aggressive--

    meaning:not 100% womanly woman!

    :)

    gender tests are to humiliate people

    we are who we are!

  • You are transexuall or half men/women if you say like that

  • my son that i delivered says other wise your ignorant piece of dog shit and if i was i would still be worth more than your pathetic excuse for a life

  • "she´ s "(nice use of the " ´ " )

    "a"

    "women" (for something as seemingly so important such as gender and or sex,its important to word things right!.....caster is not a "she" or a "he" for caster they are a "me"!

    i am me and you are you and we are all together

    i am the walrus

    i am the eggman

    i am and caster is intersexed

    its time for intersexed people to be seen as they are,a mix of the two supposed only sexes/genders!

    thank you for your replies

    interesting topic

  • Anyone playing the race card here - PATHETIC. Common sense says no woman looks, moves, acts, or speaks like Semenya. Testing is fair and right in this case. S.A. Federation carries much of the blame for not addressing this issue. Consider the coach they selected: Ekkart Arbeit - immoral & unethical snake. I feel sorry for Castor, this must be very difficult. The cocky display of flexing muscles, dusting shoulders, and strutting around sure didn't help the situation.

  • she is a woman !!! END OF

  • Woman should compete with women, hermaphrodite should compete with other hermaphrodites, man should compete with men.

    Sometimes exceptions are possible, for instance in horse riding all genders are allowed to compete all together.

  • Right.

  • @rt252

    This hermaphrodite is winning major championship races and a fortune in bonuses in the process.

    If she was a middle of the pack runner then there would be no cause for alarm but the fact that she is not 100% a woman does not give her the right to compete in a womans only event.

  • @rt252

    Gender is not sex.

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  • She's a MAN, No clit, no tits, no female voice, no way!

  • Most men I know have no clit, no tits, no female voice AND a penis... Mr. Arafat, the world is quite complex, and so is gender.

  • This is so silly! This is a MAN. Look at her!!??? She has a mans face, ass, chest, arms, hands, and she does not have a uterus or ovaries!!! Come on people.. be fair, She is wearing pants!!

  • anyone else notice that she's the only one wear pants?

  • Caster Semenya have testicles/balls who works and ejaculates sperm because of that... no so feminine, if you ask me.. he he

  • She has a vagina

  • its obvious hes a man..look at all the facts and if you think she looks like a woman the there is something wrong with you

  • She's a woman.

  • obviously not..

  • Obviously so..

  • women dont have testicles

  • and niether does she.

  • um were have you been?

  • the investigations are not baseless.....it will be an injustice to other athletes if she is winning unfairly, or say with unfair advantage....so no need to make an issue out of it..........and let the results come. And yeah I saw the race, Meadows..........ooh she is awsome :)

  • can see her balls hahaha

  • SEMENya

  • why is this a black and white issue and no just because of the history of a country doesn't allow you to be a bigot and hate white people sorry this just makes you ignorant also fun fact for you we created roads, bridges, farms, irrigation, agriculture, cities, trade routes, ship yards the list goes on for south africa we are the reason why it's the most successful african country bye

  • Some of you people are so immature and have no intelligence whatso ever. I think she is awesome, she kicked all the other girls butts and broke her personal best time. She should be congratulated. She may never of had her period before as she is super fit and that is what can happen if you dont have enough body fat like her. If she was born with slightly more testosterone she is not a freak she is purely like million of others that just arent in the lime light. Give her a break.

  • I'm not a girl not yet a women lalalalala I'm a man.

  • Fact. The devil through humans destroy other humans. Do I also want to contributet to that. No ways. Caster Semenya is possibly the most humiliated person in the world.

  • wonder if they would have made such a big deal if she came in second?

  • Did u notice that all the chics on 1:00 r wearing shorties and Caster is wearing shorts??? maybe thats cuz her ballz would fall out XD

  • pdytko .. LOL ... lol ...

  • I don't think she'd be able to keep up if she's only able to compete with men. That sucks.

  • The reason why people are bashing is that he lied, maybe he didnt know he was a man, but no menstrual period ever?!?! come on! didn't he at least ask his medical staff to find out why no period ever? not at 12, not at 13, not at 14. I mean if your a girl you want to know what is wrong with you. So he knew, some doctors knew and they lied.

  • That is a fuckin BOI. You are a boi...I am a boi...we are both boys

  • New test results says she has NO ovaries and NO uterus .. also she has TESTES ( although internal ) that produces MALE hormones .. so "she" is a man BIOLOGICALLY .. I think it's FAIR to Let her KEEP her medal but be disqualified to run from now on.

  • agreed, but still pretty sad, its rly unfair .. poor caster

  • i don´t understand why nobody is focusing on the south african athletic organization and officials involved, i am sure they tested her and hoped there wouldn´t be any controversy. they should be investigated for fraud, lying and concealment. Unfortunately also the family´s economic situation was tied to the concealment of her true gender identity. Poor girl. she´s the real victim here.

  • i agree @ Jamienoel..i feel sorry 4 her too....at least people shld have some pity on her, she didn't chose to be born this way!

  • I feel sorry for her. She was born with a birth defect and people are calling her a man, "IT" and totally defaming her. I could not imagine going through what she is going through now. What a horrible experience. The poor girl. My heart goes out to her. :(

  • The ANC is using this to direct more hate towards whites.

  • well with their history who can blame them? If you were black in SA you would hate whites too

  • racism..... please.... just leave it alone. This girl has been humiliated enough, without moral crusaders and equal rights nutters coming out screaming racism.

    Last time i checked ALL races had men and women.... and transgenders..... or did some recent act of parliment make THAT something only ethnic minorities were allowed as well?

    Seriously though, think if you were this kid, male OR female, and now being used a political AND race pawn... pretty sad for her in my opinion.

  • shes my best hereo

  • fuck dat idiot at da end da wite men. da woman is a lezbian dey all look like man fuck da government dey full of it fuckin pricks. Lord bles da woman.

  • this just in....she is a confirmed hermaphodite. sad they have humiliated the girl or whatever to the world now :(

  • The question is not just if she has different fixtures under the bicycle shorts, that could all look normal. But if she carries an extra chromosome she would not qualify as a female under International sports regulations.

    The fact that as an 18 year old, she improved 8 seconds on her personal best, at that level, is remarkable whether it is a he or a she we are talking about. Her actual times would be good (not World Class or outstanding) for a boy of that age.

  • im atheist lol

  • a fuckin man

  • wow this is stupid she/he has a deeper voice than i do, and looks like a man 100% and yeah, no bakini shorts what is with that in 3 years he/she will have a fricken muzzy, no offence and im not trying to be mean

  • If those are not balls, then I dont know.

  • One interesting thing though. Notice the other women in the race wear tiny bikini shorts, whereas Caster is wearing less-revealing bicycle shorts. I don't want to be mean either, but is she hiding something lol

  • I dont think Caster has committed a crime but im sure the people who are organising these tests have to make sure the gender is correct. I dont think there is anything wrong with that. I personally think that 'she' might have some record of masculinity - by the looks of 'her' figure. But some people are being quite 'harsh' on Caster. And even if the results come out negative at the end of the day its not like Caster broke a record or anything. 'She' won a race, memories are all you need.

  • She has female reproductive system and thats what makes us female

  • Shes a FEMALE 100% the IAAF need to leave her alone shes only 18, she won that medal SIMPLE she doesnt have a medical condition shes didnt change sex her mum even showed her birth certicate jhzeeze shes a girl and she dont need not bloody test to prove that!!!

  • your such an idiot

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  • If you ask me, she's a transgendered male. She really looks like a man. And I'm not trying to be cruel but there are many men out there with a vagina and Caster is 1 of them...

  • cant they just check if she has a dick or summat? that wud be the easiest way.

  • stay strong bee

    don't let them break u

  • Shouldn't they just be able to draw blood and check testosterone levels and shit?

  • I wonder whether there would have been all this if she hadn't won?

    are they complaining about her breaking the rules, or are they complaining about her winning?

  • They are complaining about it all. Did you see how far behind those women were left.

    If gender was not in ? & the race had been won the same way, tests for steroids would be going on instead.

    I know a woman here where I live that was born with both, her father chose to close her vagina and make her a man. when she got older she went and had it reversed because she felt she was a woman.. She has male features and tall as hell, but she chose to be a woman & by law she is considered a woman

  • test results?!?!!? just tell her to pull down her pants LOL

  • backtublive WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU SMOKING? if you gonna talk shit about good people first get you facts straight or just SHUT THE FAK UP!!! you retarded bitch. Semenya iz a chick and that's it... you piece of shit!

  • yoyoyo ma! yo raight bro!

    translated...: you have a pretty offensive language.

  • I wonder if it were a man who looked female we would be having this discussion

  • do you like BANG COCK not the wankers past time the place. you will find shitloads. I dont know if the IAAF are pissing against the tree with there spokesman on the gender isue, but his name is LAMINE DAICK mess with the words and you have "IM A LAME DICK" if shes got overies whats the debate and the £ooos they will spend finding out

  • i think it is wrong, if they thought she looked like a man they should have tested her before she raced. Not after she won! Don't tell me they suddenly notice she looks like a man!

  • if she proves to be a woman I'll be really glad. Nobody deserves to be threatened like that neither to be in the situation she's been into. She's a human being for God Sake not an alien so she deserves respect! go girl proof the world that is wrong!

  • Let's get this test done, why  haven't we got the results out yet?

  • i doubt a rural south african had enough money a gender test

    just so she cud frikkin run 4a few lapz around a field

    2 win a gold medal

    she's a beautiful, albeit muscular, south african waman

    viva south africa viva!

  • that's a dude !!! he only missed a hot dog and two meat balls on the way out , that can get fixed !!! :)

  • don't be rude. Semenya may have ambiguous genetalia.

  • Teenage boy all the way.

  • You are the non-realist.

  • no hips...

  • wide round hips i mean.

  • all black women suspiciously look like men, so they all should be tested not just this hermaphrodite.... every last one of them. black bitches are the ugliest so called females on the planet the most unfeminine women on the planet it's just that simple

  • Good lord, you are a racist and belong in the middle ages. They are all God's children and are human beings. I thought America had grown up and matured regarding race, but unfortunately not. People do not choose what they look like, but they surely choose what they think - and for that reason you are uglier than the ugliest person on earth.

  • why u being so racist 4 ?

  • Unrealistic --- by what standard? I have lived in Africa and speak from experience.

  • how they dare to tell that shes a he?? -.-' with that beautriful camel toe? pffft shes cute and the body is due to harrrrrd trainig.

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  • You are very immature.

  • Black women are beautiful - they don't need fancy hairstyles and makeup.

  • en su nombre esta la respuesta SEMEN-YA.

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