Filipino sprinter runs as man and woman
MDM
woman
(c) 1996 Copyright Nando.net
(c) 1996 Reuter Information Service
MANILA (Feb 22, 1996 - 10:58 EST) - A Filipino sprinter embroiled in a
long-running gender
row has stumped the country's sports officials by competing in provincial
athletic meets as both a
man and a woman.
The recent two races as man and woman by Nancy Navalta, billed last year by
Manila newspapers
as Asia's next sprint champion, has placed sports officials in a quandary
after she qualified for the
National Games in April.
And if Navalta runs at least as fast in the women's 100 meters at the
national titles, the matter of
gender will become an Olympic issue.
The 18-year-old ran a hand-timed 11.42 seconds last week in the 100 meters
which would qualify
her for the women's race at the Atlanta Olympic Games which begin on July 19.
International Amateur Athletics Federation rules state if a female clocks
11.44 seconds or better
and wins her national championship she qualifies.
Navalta, who hails from a poor region in the northern Philippines, won the
100 and 200 metre
women's races at a local athletics contest last week in Pangasinan province
and finished fourth in
the men's 100 meters a few weeks ago. In the 200 meters Navalta clocked 24.05
seconds.
"I don't think she would allowed to take part (in the national games) because
a lot of protests
would be fielded against her," Go Teng Kok, president of the Philippine
Amateur Track and Field
Association (PATAFA), told Reuters on Thursday.
Go said Navalta was allowed to run both as a man and a woman because the
results of her gender
tests conducted in 1995 by the Philippine Centre for Sports Medicine (PCSM)
have not been
released to PATAFA officials.
Philippines sports officials said the gender results had been sent to the
International Olympic
Committee but they had not heard back from the ruling body.
"I am a full woman. I fervently believe that," Navalta told a Manila news
conference last year when
the controversy first broke. She is currently in seclusion in her hometown in
La Union province 250
km (155 miles) north of Manila.
Local sports doctors who ran the tests last year said privately that Navalta
is clearly a male.
The PCSM doctor who ran the tests, Tyrone Reyes, was not in Manila and his
office could not
comment on the case.
Plans by the Philippines to field Navalta in last December's Southeast Asian
Games in Thailand
were scuttled shortly after Navalta's gender tests.
Go said he has tried to get in touch with Navalta over her plans to take part
in the National Games.
The Philippines had hoped Navalta would succeed Lydia de Vega-Mercado, the
Filipino sprinter
who won back-to-back gold medals in the women's 100 meters event at the 1982
New Delhi and
1986 Seoul Asian Games.
De Vega-Mercado retired after the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima.
A family friend said Navalta has stopped training for the national games in
General Santos city on
Mindanao.
The most famous case of a man running as a woman was that of Stella Walsh.
Running as
Stanislawa Walasiewicz, she won the 100 meters gold medal for Poland in the
1932 Los Angeles
Olympics.
She set 11 world records and then won a silver medal in the 100 meters at the
1936 Berlin
Olympics.
But when she was shot dead after being caught up in a robbery in 1980, an
autopsy showed Walsh
had male sex organs.
"I pity this young girl. She's only 18. she has not yet accepted the result
of her gender test. If the
gender test was good, she could have run. But the tests were not good," Go
said.
Fred M. Amores
>
>TRACK & FIELD: Filipino sprinter runs as man and
>woman
>
>
>
>long-running gender
>row has stumped the country's sports officials by competing in
provincial
>athletic meets as both a
>man and a woman.
>
Fred M. Amores
Amores) writes:
A strange human species.What makes a female female and male male?
I seen some photos of sprinter Nancy Navalta it appears to me she is a
woman but her facial feature looks like a male.
Nico Rodin Tuason
Is an XXY a male or a female? This should be a male, but I heard Jamie
Lee Curtis is XXY female. Explains why she looks manly... :)
An XYY is a male, but I'm sure if you really wanted to argue... :)
--
Nico Tuason
Mga Kapatid President 95-96
http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~payumo/MK.html
Filipino Cultural Research Organization (FILCRO)
http://pubweb.ucdavis.edu/Documents/FILCRO/filcro.html
Reply to:
nytu...@ucdavis.edu
Antonio Miguel
to the human chemistry than anatomy.Ergo,transgenderisms exists on the
planet Earth.Strange,yes does not compute.Now,try fuzzy logic.Neither
definite yes nor definite no!There always seems to be exception to the
rule
Penis-male genitalia.
Vagina-female genitalia.
Anus-exist in both female and male.(often confused as genitalia)
Tikki tikki tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo
>What would happen if someone was XXY or XYY? Do they get to choose?
In humans, a Y chromosome means that an individual is male. All
humans with Y chromosomes are therefore classified as male. This is
not the same in other species: for example, in Drosophila melanogaster
(fruit fly), they need to have two X chromosomes in order to be
female.
>Is an XXY a male or a female? This should be a male, but I heard Jamie
>Lee Curtis is XXY female. Explains why she looks manly... :)
XXY in humans is male, with abnormalities (Klinefelter's Syndrome), so
I don't think so. However, some people who are genetically male could
develop as females due to hormonal problems during early development
(there's an article somewhere -- I think the British Journal of Sexual
Medicine or something like that -- that hypothesizes that Joan of Arc
was genotypically a man).
>An XYY is a male, but I'm sure if you really wanted to argue... :)
Yeah.
-joanna
--
]:o_ o/
|O = joanna l. salgado __ computer greek (delta gamma) ___|--
|_o= shower philosopher call...@leland.stanford.edu \
@ `
Gerry Limjuco
In article <4gqqlo$q...@reader2.ix.netcom.com>, Fred M. Amores (amo...@ix.netcom.com) writes:
>In <4gqkd3$c...@cloner3.netcom.com> amo...@ix.netcom.com(Fred M.
>Amores) writes:
>
> A strange human species.What makes a female female and male male?
>I seen some photos of sprinter Nancy Navalta it appears to me she is a
>woman but her facial feature looks like a male.
>
>
>
Does anyone out there know how sex tests are performed so we can be
enlightened? Can't it be as simple as if you have female genitalia
then you are female and if you have male genitalia you are male?