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Caster Semenya easily won the Women's 800 meter title at the Berlin world championships, but the 18 year old's true gender has been called into question.

My Take: Tough issue. I grew up in the time of Renee Richards, whose career as a female tennis player was easy comic fodder. However, as time has passed it has become more commonly acknowledged that there are some who are born without a clear physiological distinction between male and female. This is potentially a time when reality simply does not conform to our simple categories and traditional notions.

The issue is compounded because we expect women to be slower than men in similar running events due to normal physiology, so placing a line in the sand of what it means to be a "woman" becomes important to the competition. This issue will never come up for someone who is competing as a man.