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Caster Semenya, the South African 800m champion, has been told to take a gender test by the International Association of Athletics Federations. It seems she ran so well that she must be a man.

It's only a few years ago that British marathon runner Paula Radcliffe completely demolished the World Marathon record, coming in with a time that most of her male compatriots would have been proud to achieve. Strangely there were no demands for her to take a sex test.

This was because she was so obviously a girly. She was little and cute and she had a fluffy whispy voice like girls are supposed to have and this kuyoooot little laugh. So instead all her rivals studied her style, her diet, her exercise regime, and started work on something similar for themselves. Surprise! Within two years other girls were running just as fast as Radcliffe. They could have done it all along, they just needed someone to show them the way.

Then there's Usain St. Leo Bolt who is likewise smashing speed records and causing much exitement all around him. To the best of my knowledge the IAAF haven't insisted he be tested for an unusual aversion to kryptonite.

So why are they picking on Caster Semenya? It's because they're afraid she may be a bit different. She may be a girl with the XY chromosome, or have some other kind of aberation that means that she's really a girl in a man's body. Or vice versa, they're not worried as long as they get her for something.

So she's in danger of being disallowed from competing because of some aberation that she has no knowledge of or control over. We've already had a case of a disabled athlete being barred because they were afraid his artificial legs gave him an advantage, now we're in the field of disbarring super-abled athletes. Soon you'll have to pass a normalness test before you're allowed to compete at anything.

Hitler would have been really proud.