Olympic Sex Testing
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I just read this story in the NY Times:
http://olympics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/lab-ready-for-s...
It has me wondering about how they're going to deal with people who never knew they were intersexed before now. As some of you may know, a condition called CAIS (Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome) makes fetuses with XY chromosomes develop as apparent females. This is a condition that's often never diagnosed until late in puberty, when the reason for failure to begin menses is investigated. With young female gymnasts being so young these days, one could barely what the crushing psychological effect will be of them suddenly being subjected to this unexpected discovery, should it occur.
What bugs me about this article the most is the comments at the end. No one but no one is worrying about the potential intersexed victims of this.