As many will recall, the gold medal performance in the 800 meter track competition by Caster Semenya, a South African athlete, last month at the Berlin World Championships, sparked a “sex panic” when some observers questioned Semenya’s “real” sex. Well, things have turned a troubling corner in this matter this week. An Australian newspaper reported today that Semenya’s “gender verification” test results revealed that she failed the female sex test . That is to say, the results are repo