Indian runner fails gender test, loses medal

An Indian runner who won a silver medal in the women's 800 meters at the Asian Games failed a gender test and was stripped of the medal.

I wonder what this really means? Does it mean that official governing institutions have questions about the "black and white" notion of gender? Is it possible that they are actually legitimizing the idea of a transgendered spectrum in the human species (and by extension, other animals)?

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