Apparently 'as many as one in 1,000 is born with gender abnormalities' and may not be aware of this until they reach adulthood - which rather suggests there's no obvious physical masculinity about these women. 'Suspicious-looking' implies conscious deception, but from the examples given in the Times article, many of these women don't even know they're not genetically a typical female. Sisterhood aside, for the moment, I understand that a competition needs to be fair. But when we start demanding genetic purity in our sports people, might we be taking our first steps down a slippery slope?
The picture, by the way, is Ewa Klobukowska, the first woman to be 'unmasked as a man' as The Times puts it, in its Scooby Dooish way.


