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"The best we can do is protect her and look out for her during this trying time."
The best you can do is to recognise that gender is not binary and stop this ever happening again. Intersex condition affect about 1% of the population, not what I would call rare, but everyone seems frightened of it.
Well, it is time for the world to grow up and see Nature as it is, in glorious diversity. Nature laughs at Man's silly rules on gender.
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Replied on Monday, September 14, 2009 12:00 AM
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 NMjayd (Guest)
I agree that intersexed conditions are proof that binary gender is a glorious diversity.
However,it is time for idealists to realize there are actual rules guiding athletic competitors to bring about fair competition. There are, and have been for decades, athletic competiton rules about testosterone levels in athletes, and that athletes who have elevated testosterone, no matter what their insides are comprised of, may not fairly compete with non enhanced athletes. Period.
Besides which, do you really think zero menstruation was not noticed in this athlete by herself, her coaches, her family? Come on now. Every time any athlete competes in world forum competitions, any athlete, male or female, knows there are occasionally steroid and testosterone levels to ensure the playing field is level for all athletes.
Not to mention the greatly increased cancer risk that intertestes individuals are prone to. It hasn't been fair of her health to of been at risk, either.
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Replied on Wednesday, September 16, 2009 12:00 AM
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Cripster (Guest)
Appearances aren't everything. What did she do exactly - except run?
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Replied on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 12:00 AM
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Mitzy (Guest)
There is no way to console someone who has had this type of trauma, i.e. loss of self-identity, loss of biological female-ness, and gain of sexual abnormality. It is positively devastating. Only time will allow her to come to terms with it and re-invent herself. The most immediate concern is controlling her moods via medication so that she does not over-react negatively. If only she lived in an enlightened society that celebrated bi-gendered spirits, as did the native Americans and Polynesian societies.
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Replied on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 12:00 AM
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Guest
Sorry but while I sympathize with this young girl she made a poor choice and is now paying for it. I wish the best for her but just because I "feel bad" for her does not make what she did right.
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Replied on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 12:00 AM
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Cripster (Guest)
Appearances aren't everything. What did she do exactly - except run?
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Replied on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 12:00 AM
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responding to "Sorry but while I sympathize with this young girl she made a poor choice and is now paying for it."
What poor choice are you referring to? The fact that she was born? That she was raised female, identifies as such, and lives as such? That if this report is true, which it may not be, that she is intersexed like 1 in 2000 people born each year?
Sound like judgment to me that you are slinging
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Replied on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 12:00 AM
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Nothango (Guest)
@ Polly, I couldn't agree with you more. It is certainly past time the world catches up with Nature's wonderful diversity in external appearance, internal organs, talents and abilities. This is not just about Caster, but about being mature enough to accept Nature's differences (in ourselves and others) with grace and sensitivity.
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Replied on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 12:00 AM
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