When someone is raised female and the genes say XY (Associated Press - 9/11/2009)

When someone is raised female and the genes say XY

This article is about the gender-questioning of 2009's 800m World Championship winner, Caster Semenya. Genetic gender tests show that she has a "disorder of sexual development;" though she was raised a female, her body exhibits some male tendencies. This article explores the scientific realities of Semenya's disorder and decries the public humiliation Semenya is experiencing due to her condition. Semenya's sexual development disorder is a wild challenge to the societal norms of aging. Her story is considered bizarre and unsettling because her condition is so contrary to the biological and genetic "age pyramid" of the normal human being. Many question her humanity exactly because she ages so differently. This article relies heavily on scientific explanation as a rhetorical strategy. With all these high and mighty scientists giving their informed opinion on Semenya's condition, the article's support for Semenya gets some major sex appeal, both believable and persuasive. Semenya's story draws me in because she is a direct refutation of gender, genetic and biological aging, a blazing contradiction that is glaringly taboo in its rarity.