Posted on 02/09/2005 5:39:26 PM PST by Ellesu
A multi-talented Zimbabwean international athlete who has won several awards in regional competitions as a female athlete has been arrested after it was discovered that he is a man.
Samukeliso Sithole, 17, was arrested last week after a female friend who had undressed in full view of the athlete found out that he was a male, the state dailies The Herald and Chronicle said. The friend lodged a complaint with the police and Sithole was arrested for alleged impersonation and offensive behaviour.
Sithole however insists that he is a woman, even though a medical doctor has confirmed that he is a man.
He told the court that he was born with both male and female organs and a traditional healer gave him herbs that helped him become 100 percent woman.
Because his parents neglected to pay the traditional healer his full fees, his male organs recently grew back, Sithole said.
In recent years, Sithole has taken part in international youth athletic events such as hurdles, javelin, shot putt and triple jumping.
In June last year, he won a gold medal for Zimbabwe at a regional athletics tournament in Botswana where he competed as a woman.
He also scooped up five medals in Mauritius last year.
He has been ordered to return to court on March 3 for another hearing.
Ther moral here? Always pay your healer bills.
You sure this isn't a farce?
LOL. Here is another link.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1477508,00.html
Samukeliso Sithole, 17, was arrested last week after a female friend who had undressed in full view of the athlete found out that he was a male, the state dailies The Herald and Chronicle said.
Read that carefully. It was not the guy who undressed. It was the woman who undressed.... So guess how she figured out he is male.
From the other link I posted..."decorative"
Golden athlete must prove that she really is all woman
From Jan Raath in Harare
ZIMBABWE’S most successful young athlete, who has a string of international victories in women’s athletics, stands accused of being a man.
Samukeliso Sithole, 18, from a steelworkers’ compound in the central town of Kwekwe, has won track and field gold medals for Zimbabwe at venues across southern Africa.
Early next month she will attempt to convince a court that she is not guilty of impersonation and, in so doing, prove that her success is in no way due to hidden masculinity.
In addition to facing charges of impersonating a woman, she is being charged with indecent behaviour against one of her friends, Milita Mudondiro. The woman claims that Ms Sithole, whom she now believes to be a man, “impaired her dignity” by watching her undress when Ms Sithole visited her.
At a hearing last week, a magistrate allowed Ms Sithole to be freed on bail because she could not decide whether the athlete should be held in the women’s or the men’s wing of Kwekwe prison.
Prosecutors claim that a doctor’s report after Ms Sithole’s arrest asserted that she had a male organ, but her appearance in court left few onlookers in any doubt that they were looking at a woman.
“The court has a problem,” Tapfumaneyi Nkonde, for the prosecution, said. “She has everything of a woman — breasts, a woman’s voice and the features of a woman.” Ms Sithole told the court that she, like other female athletes, had undergone sex-determination tests before athletics meetings. She also had a boyfriend.
Last year Ms Sithole shattered Zimbabwean junior provincial records by winning gold medals in the long jump, high jump, 400m hurdles, javelin and shot. In the southern African championships in Botswana in June, she won Zimbabwe’s only gold medal.
She was found by athletics coaches scouting for promising athletes at school sports days in an impoverished rural area north of Kwekwe. Her success in athletics has brought her “millions of Zimbabwe dollars”, the court was told, enough to buy several plots of land in Kwekwe, and cattle.
“This business appears to have been started by local gossip about her,” Mr Nkonde said. Ms Sithole had been with a group of girlfriends in Kwekwe last month when a passer-by had shouted that she was a man. She had fled but had been chased and caught by the man, who had handed her over to police. She had been examined at Kwekwe’s state hospital.
Ms Sithole told the court that she could not use her male organ. “She said it was ‘decorative’,” Mr Nkonde said.
The athlete said that she was born with male and female genitalia, but that a traditional healer had made the male organ “disappear” with the application of “some herbs”.
However, her parents had paid the healer only half his fee. The organ had reappeared recently, she said, which she blamed on the healer who, she said, was trying to force her parents to pay the balance.
“She wants the trial to start so that she can be properly tested and prove she is female,” Mr Nkonde said.
The court ordered that Ms Sithole’s fingerprints be taken. “We don’t want a situation where another identical twin turns up,” Mr Nkonde said.
Page 1 || Page 2 || Page 3
This chick grew one?
Hmmmm
next they will be telling me people are stealing showers in London.......
Mr. Bobbit will be thrilled to hear that they grow back.
It's that damn Viagra!!! I see a lawsuit coming for a most interesting side effect!
The evidence still comes up a little short.
Traditional "Healer"? & "Herbs"?
What, all the "Licensed" Witch Doctors too busy this time of year?
Her success in athletics has brought her “millions of Zimbabwe dollars”, the court was told, enough to buy several plots of land in Kwekwe, and cattle. . . . .However, her parents had paid the healer only half his fee.The organ had reappeared recently, she said, which she blamed on the healer who, she said, was trying to force her parents to pay the balance.
SHe-He-it has millions of Zimbabwe dollars but the healer has to make her parents pay the healer??? Why not pay him herself and make the problem go away???
Sexual re-assignment surgery is simple mutilation, usually coupled with hormone treatments. At no point is sex 'rea-assigned'.
If you hold your tongue and say the name, it makes sense.
The penis grew back?
I told her not to fool with those darn stem cells.
>>Sexual re-assignment surgery is simple mutilation, usually coupled with >>hormone treatments. At no point is sex 'rea-assigned'.
You are mistaken.
(a) It is not simple mutilation unless you do not desire said surgery,
(b) It is always coupled with hormone treatments. In cases of male to female estrogen brings changes to body structure, redistribution of weight and muscle mass, together with changes to skin and other physical aspects. Where the patient is Female to Male, testosterone helps deepen the voice, bulk muscle, promote facial hair growth among other things.
(c) Sex can be reassigned. Gender cannot. There is a very real difference between these things. The sex is your genitals, your gender is your identity.
I suggest you read Brain Sex by Anne Moir Ph.D and David Jessel (review at http://www.rightgrrl.com/bookreviews/brainsex.html).
It's easy to be conservative, the trick is to be an informed one.
L.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.