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Pinki Pramanik, female Indian sprinter, accused of being a man,
charged with rape


STRDEL/AFP/Getty Images Games gold medallist woman athlete Pinki
Pramanik was first arrested in June after her live-in girlfriend
accused her of being a man masquerading as a woman and of raping her.
Pramanik denies all the charges.


Kate Allen
Global Science & Technology Reporter






A decorated runner who won medals for India while competing as a woman
was charged with rape on Monday after a gender test indicated she is
actually a man, according to media reports.

Pinki Pramanik, 26, became a national star after rising from childhood
poverty to win gold while anchoring India’s 400-metre relay team at
the 2006 Asian Games. Pramanik won a silver medal at Sydney’s
Commonwealth Games the same year.

Pramanik became mired in controversy in June after the now-retired
runner’s live-in girlfriend accused Pramanik of being a man
masquerading as a woman and of raping her. Pramanik denies all the
charges.

Previous gender tests had proved inconclusive, according to multiple
Indian newspaper reports.

On Monday, Agence-France Presse reported that the police had charged
Pramanik with rape after a medical board set up to determine
Pramanik’s gender concluded Pramanik is a man. Indian newspapers
quoted Pramanik on Monday accusing the police of conspiracy and saying
she had not seen a copy of the medical panel’s report, despite her
requests.

She has also been charged with impersonation, cheating, assault and
intimidation, and “cohabitation caused by a man deceitfully inducing
belief of a lawful marriage”, according to the Times of India.

AFP quoted the chairman of the medical board as saying Pramanik is a
“male pseudohermaphrodite,” a condition normally called XY intersex.
It means that the chromosomal sex and internal sex organs indicate the
person is male, while the external genitals appear female or are
ambiguous.

Determining an intersex person’s “true gender” is fraught with
difficulty — medical, personal, and political. In some XY intersex
cases, the person may develop fully female genitalia and identify as a
woman, having no idea that their chromosomal sex is male. In other
cases, the external genitalia can be ambiguous — a mix of both.

Pramanik’s partner, Anamika Acharya, 30, went to police on June 14,
claiming Pramanik is actually a man and had assaulted her regularly
and raped her several times. Pramanik was arrested and later released
on bail. A video of Pramanik completely naked and undergoing a gender
verification test went viral after the June arrest. A human rights
commission reprimanded the state police for dealing with Pramanik’s
case insensitively, according to reports.

Pramanik retired in 2008, disappearing from the public eye and buying
a house in the eastern city of Kolkata.
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