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This was silly.

She’s an amazing runner I’ll give her that.
that fact they the IAAF told her they were doing a doping test when they were really doing a sex-gender test makes me angry – why can’t we tell the truth?

That’s dumb. She looks really fake in that picture, that’s not the way she’s supposed to look.

She’s actually a hermaphrodite.

@JoeytheGenie@xanga -  That’s crazy….

i agree. its like she’s a circus act.

What a humiliating thing to tralk about.
I feel so bad for her

i feel bad for her. i mean, i’d sure feel terrible if i had the entire world questioning my gender. 

the makeover objectifies her. way to tell people to leave her alone while molding her into what society thinks she ought to be.

although i don’t know how i feel about someone with testes (if that report is correct) competing as a “woman.”

You can tell she is uncomfortable in the picture. This makes me so angry, why does she need to be all glammed up just to be considered a female. She is being treated unfairly, and it makes me feel really bad for her. She doesn’t deserve that.

Judging by the other headlines on that magazine, I wouldn’t accredit them at all.

She looks…uncomfortable

she’s a girl. she deserves a makeover. just like other girls. but she does not deserve anyone questioning her gender.

i actually think its a good way to shut the tabloits up,,,its like here shes a girl now lets go on with our lives…or else the tabloids would just continue on.

DEAR LORD wtf is it? jk she actually looked better before.

i’m a girl, and i don’t want nor think i need a makeover…

anyway, if zac efron can run around without people giving him a manly makeover, then i personally think people should leave this woman’s appearances alone.

and i understand that there are some difficult issues to deal with concerning competitions, but the iaaf could’ve been more open/honest, what an invasion of privacy! i’m all for keeping things fair, but they should’ve been straight up about the tests from the get-go, that’s beyond wrong.

As long as she thinks it’s in good fun and the people giving the make over were making a joke of the situation, it’s OK….I think it’s a sad statement to society’s obsession with appearances. Honestly, yes, if there is that much of a concern, test her, but silently and discreetly. This was a lot of overkill and insult.

@teapot_417@xanga - *giggle* Yes, can we test the boys out their with no five o clock shadow and skin tight jeans, just to make sure?

I used to get teased about being a guy because I wore baggy, drab, male-like clothing, and because I didn’t have any piercings and never wore makeup. I rolled my eyes and shrugged it off, but it hurt every time somebody made that quip. I would wonder if I wasn’t attractive or feminine enough to draw any person of the male order’s interest, ever.

I made a few wardrobe changes (not just from the peer pressure, but to accommodate my changing tastes as well) and grew a bit (in the right areas) and the teasing stopped. I’ll probably never forget the laughs at my expense, though, so I know how painful it is to be accused of being something you’re not, especially in a world where femininity is valued and held on a pedestal — girls are encouraged to be “ladylike” in manners and carriage, and any girl who deviates is a “tomboy.”

To reiterate a popular truism: Women come in all shapes and sizes. The unexpected will happen. The gawkily tall runner will win the 100 M and set a world record. The woman who has a man’s physique can win the 800 M and be female at the same time. Her body was her advantage, but now it’s the only thing anybody can look at.

She looked way better before.

It’s not fair and she looks prettier without all this :/

If she is a man : it’s not fair for other runner. If she is an hermaphrodite, it is understandable : an hermaphrodite can shoose the sexe he/she want, and has the life she/he choose.

But when looking at other performer like our tennisplayer Amelie MAuresmo, you can’t relaly say “well it’s a women” at the first sight. But she is, and she is happy, so… No problem

First off – she looks lovely.  But this whole gender testing story makes me sick to my stomach.  I cannot believe that such a sensitive issue could be handled so callously. And what ever happened to right to privacy. One’s medical history should not be open to the public.  If the IAAF felt a real concern to do these tests, they could have been a tad more discreet about the whole thing.  This should only have been made public if she had been stripped of her gold medal as a result of the tests…

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looks the same to me && how did they speculate she wasnt a female?

She looks so uncomfortable….

What about this make’s her a circus act? There are female athletes on mag covers all the time. The fact that YOU have basically said “I feel bad for her, she thinks she’s a woman” is terrible! It has come to light that she is a hemaphridite and she produces large amounts of testosterone. Roaring about her being beautiful simply because she is a woman is mocking. She does look different, and tests needed to be done to be sure the other females were actually competeing against someone they could beat. They weren’t. She is female because that is what she has chosen to be, because her features are more strikingly female, and she’d rather be a masculine girl rather than a fem. man. So lets face it, it is not the magazine that puts her up for all to see and gawk, it’s infact this type of article.

She looks like Venus Williams. She looks nice, actually.

Ugh, that’s ridiculous. -__- People are so cruel for judging her.

I feel so bad. She must be embarrassed.
But she still looks like a man. (not that I ever cared really)

i think the title is insulting, but think of how many times this girl has been insulted in the previous months/years?

so i think it is great that she can laugh at this. she passed the gender tests a couple of weeks ago – there’s nothing to scoop for! And she just wanted to do this to make all the bitches who were talking smack look bad! (i heard about a couple of runners saying horrible things about her… and that’s a shame the level they’ll go down to just to make themselves feel better)

She looks completely confident, beautiful and in control in the pic… she’s just having a good laugh

Team Caster!

@WhenHateIsTheOnlyOption@xanga - wow I was just think the same thing!

If she has both sexes, then it would affect how she enters into her races, I gather.
Gender is just a social construction, but by doing this cover she’s pretty much saying that she identifies with a more masculine gender.

I think she should look how she wants, if she felt uncomfortable she shouldn’t have done the photo shoot.  

Silly people. Some girls just don’t like dressing up and stuff. I’d be sad if someone thought I was a boy though. 

I think it’s disgusting that they even questioned her.  What business is that of ANYONE’S? I get that if there was a question that the whole matter could have been handled discretely.  But it wasn’t. And making her over? Ugh, I wouldn’t submit to that if it were me.  

Doesnt matter to me one way or another if she did the makeover… I do think that the makeover was done horribly though.   Shes an athelete and good at what she does…look at the williams sisters.  They are not the most feminine ladies on the planet but whatever.  They are all women…nailpolish, bangles and fru fru hair does not a woman make…so theres no point to using that as proof.  Especially since no one is owed any proof to begin with…seriously.

Society just likes to “glam” people up – just like what the industry did to Susan Boyle. 

@raiyaya@xanga - co-sign that.

she still looks like a dude to me

@madchen_girl_chica@xanga -  I agree. I had a male friend who had te same problem. He had male parts but ovaries and boobs. His parents let him be male because he would have the greatest chance at nrmal function being male. People were so crule to him. He had several surgeries but then people just teased him because of his scars. I think people need to just leave well enough alone and let these people be!

I think it’s a damned shame how people focus on looks like that.
She’s an athlete, and a good one at that! 

She looks so unhappy for the picture.

I get how degrading it is, but if there is any question about her gender, they may be obligated to run tests.  I just don’t like how the situation is being handled- not delicately at all!

Coming from South Africa, some guy on the news here said that they only have a problem with her actual gender identity because she is black. I dont have a problem with her what so ever, you cannot help the way you were born and the colour of someone’s skin has nothing to do with anything anymore, people should stop trying to justifying things that way.
Maybe this is only trying to get this woman some good publicity and helping her feel feminine (of course she is going to look unfomfortable being all dressed up, even i am!, but she shouldn’t have to prove it this way). I think also that people just had that confusion whether she was male or female because she is muscular like people before said and that she seems more tom boyish. Its sad that people have this notion of ‘beautiful’ that they try rip you apart when you do not fit the normal.

If being girl-ified made her happy then why the fuck not? If it didn’t on the other hand and she doens’t like being this way…that would suck. But this is off topic.

Media always showcases people like freaks. This isn’t something new.

what annoys me about this whole thing is that they act as if they’ve never seen a manly looking female athlete before.
seriously, some female athlete’s look manly because they take testosterone.
anyways, it’s horrible how they’re treating her. she’s obviously a girl, god! >: (

Who is this person and why should I care?

they’re just trying to make fun of her.

accept her as she is. that’s what makes us all beautiful!

Hermaphrodite!!!

It’s such a shame that they blow this topic over the top. She’s a hermaphrodite. Nothing wrong about that. She’s faster than most girls, and probably most guys as well. Let her be. Why do magazines have to make it look so bad? She’s human too ya know.

She doesn’t look any different to me.

@madchen_girl_chica@xanga - Did you even read what she wrote? She didnt say
“I feel bad for her,she thinks she’s a woman“
She said that the magazine is saying that ‘look now, she looks like a woman’

“like nail polish will quell all the frenzy. Why are we so concerned with her appearance??”

The point of the blog is to say, you dont have to be GIRLY GIRL to BE a female.
Besides, I dont think the poster knew that this Woman was actually a hermaphridite before posting this.

they need to accept all types of beauty and stop look at only girls in high heels, dresses, and makeup as beautiful.

i totally agree, its total BS the way they’re trying to “feminize” her.  shes fine the way she is, don’t force something that isn’t reality

I feel really bad for her. 

OMG….I think the magazin could have done a better job. Shame on them, not her.

It sucks, sure, but she does look like a man….

I don’t really care though? I’m sure shes nice and shes obviously skilled.

I wish they’d leave her alone. :/

I think it’s terrible that people need to put stuff about her being a hermaphrodite all over magazines. That’s really sad! Has anyone else read Middlesex? That was a long but sad book about a hermaphrodie maturing.

I think it is circus-like to parade her around in all this makeover stuff in light of this whole issue.

ive been hearing about this. i strongly think that the world should just let her be.. leave her alone. i mean, she seem happy with herself, people have no rights of whichever way to judge her or speak of her! let the topic rest in peace already.

What a circus! Who sets the lines anyway? Who decides what is feminine enough? This upsets me. There is so much more to being feminine than clothes and accessories. These ‘journalists’ need to visit  Staceyann Chin at   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGk3-OJX7KE

I could care less what she looks like. Yes all of this was handled badly but I think it is right that the question be asked. If she is not 100% female she should not be allowed to compete against female athletes. Shoot me if you like but men are faster than women (sorry but it’s true) so if she has any male hormones etc then she has an unfair advantage.

As for the “makeover” I think that’s stupid. Look what it’s done, now there are just more people still talking about it! Plus I think we all know that lip gloss and nail polish does not a woman make – Ru Paul is better groomed than a lot of women, after all.

If everything is fine and she is a girl then great. And she should be allowde to be herself even if that self is happier in trakkie bottoms than heels and Prada.

@thinfriendxxo@xanga - totally agree.

“I cannot believe that such a sensitive issue could be handled so callously.”

She should not have to “make-over” anything.

@Morningstarrising@xanga - if it is in fact true that she is producing larger amounts of testosterone than her other female competitors, then i would say it is their business as well as the iaaf’s, because that’s an unfair advantage. however, it should have been kept more private and it’s sad that that’s impossible nowadays.

@Real_Girl_Fashion - lol, agreed.

She looks better the way she normally is. That whole “make her look like a girl” deal is ridiculous. I thought she already looked like one.

That’s terrible.