He or she

Due to lack of willing, struggle with boredom and nothing I can be bothered to speak about, all of a sudden the perfect article pops up.

Caster Semenya the 18 year old 800 metre runner from South Africa who split the field and came home over 2 seconds up on her rivals. This is a big winning margin by anyone's standards, let alone an athlete who beat her personal best by 5 seconds in the junior African championships.
Now miracles do not occur, but that is pretty amazing. So the IAAF thought something was a bit fishy, and the suggestion that she was male was batted about, when it should have been kept quiet.

Now it has transpired that she has an elevated level of testosterone, about 3 times that of 'normal' women. Not evidence of foul play, but interesting as testosterone the 'male' hormone is linked with athletic prowess, but could be artificial or could be natural.

This would be a good time to say that men and women are not strictly 2 different quantitative sexes. There is a line at one end male and the other female with lots of progressions in between. Just because someone is XX does not make them female similarly XY does not make them male. Some men are insensitive (the sentence does carry on ladies) to testosterone making them appear female, and sometimes the hormones are imbalanced making the clitoris bigger and a more male body shape and vice-versa.

Whatever the outcome of this I'll be following it, not because Jenny Meadows might get a silver but because it will be interesting to see if there is a line drawn, wherever it is it will be an outcome that will annoy certain people.