Caster Semenya Controversy : Gynecologist, endocrinologist, psychologist, internal medicine specialist

Caster Semenya's gold medal in tonight's 800m should have been the proudest moment of the South African teenager's life.Athlete Caster Semenya is involved in controversy regarding her gender after winning the women’s 800m gold medal at the IAAF World Track and Field Championships in Berlin on Wednesday.

As the cameras settled on the athlete who has lived her whole life as a female, onlookers pored over their TV screens, studying the woman now rumoured to be a man.

IAAF has asked the South African athletics federation to conduct a gender test after her muscular physique and amazing performances sparked speculation that she is, in fact, a man.

She does look like a man and for the sake of the competition, I think it’s fair to raise the question and do the tests. Of course, there is the possibility she is neither a man or a woman but a hermaphrodite.

Director of Communications, Nick Davies, was unable to say whether any retrospective action could be taken should Semenya be revealed to have issues surrounding her gender.

"I can't say that if X happens in the future that we will, for example, retroactively strip results. It's legally very complex.

The results of the test, which include a physical medical evaluation, along with reports from a gynecologist, endocrinologist, psychologist, an internal medicine specialist, and an expert on gender to resolve issues of ambiguous genitalia, might take weeks but her family has guaranteed Caster is a woman.