Check this out.

It's a story about a competitive runner whose medal was stripped after failing a sex test. Yes, a sex test. As in, there was a serious question about the gender of this runner. Ostensibly a "she," the aforementioned Indian athlete won a medal at the Asian Games, but lost the award because "her" sex test turned up too many Y chromosomes.

Too many Y chromosomes? Am I incorrect to have assumed that by genetic standards, women don't have any Y chromosomes? That's what we all learned in biology class anyway.

A spokesperson for Indian athletics may have answered my question, in denying that the athlete had a sex change operation.

Instead, the official said XXX appeared to have "abnormal chromosomes."

Regardless of the truth in this statement, it illustrates that perceptions are a-shiftin'. It took a while for the academic community to latch onto the idea that sexuality is a spectrum rather than an absolute "I dig men" or "I dig women."

Now we have to consider that gender and sex might just be as well.

The deeper the human race gets into studying its own genetic makeup, the more we learn how complex we truly are. And how notions of what defines "sex" from earlier studies aren't necessarily absolute.

That probably means that sometime in the future, the International Olympic Committee is going to have to refine all of the rules that define separate men's and women's competitive sporting events. Or maybe they could just scrap all that. Adam v. Eve. Samson v. Delilah. Solomon v. Bathsheba. And if I recall my biblical studies correctly, the girls can hold our own against the men.

That also reminds me of a song...Anything you can do, I can do better...