At the Olympics, Privates Are Not Private

At the Olympics, it’s not enough for women to prove themselves athletically. They must also prove themselves in the gender department.

Beijing Olympic organizers have been busy readying their country for the Games. They’ve been working on the facilities, the pollution problem and the safety. And now they are preparing the gender determination lab.
 

Yup, those butch athletes may just be men. Or so the Olympics committee worries.
 

At each Games, females suspected of not being quite female must undergo a sex test, giving a blood sample which will look at their hormones, genes and chromosomes. That’s got to be an ego boost.
 

According to the New York Times, the testing began in the 1960’s when some people thought the Communist countries of Eastern Europe were perhaps using male athletes in women’s sports. Ah, Communists. What won’t we accuse them of?
 

In 2006, Santhi Soundarajan, a runner from India, failed the gender test and thus lost her silver medal.
 

This reminds me of a little movie called Ladybugs. This intelligent, thoughtful comedy brought us Rodney Dangerfield, high school sports and some gender bending on the soccer field.
 

What do you think, should college sports consider a similar rule? Do some female athletes make you stop and wonder?