"Gender" Testing at the Olympics

You knew this had to be coming. The AP has a story saying that China’s state media has reported that organizers of the Beijing Olympics have set up a “gender determination lab” to test female athletes suspected of being males. How, you might be wondering, will they decide whom to test? Well, it’s said experts will initially evaluate individuals based on their external appearance. (I would love to know what kind of experience qualifies one as an expert in this area.) I suppose if you don’t look sufficiently feminine (or more likely if you look overly masculine) organizers will take blood samples to test hormones and chromosomes, which ought to settle everything. I imagine we’ll be hearing more about this.