Zimbabwe police have charged a man with masquerading as a female athlete after he competed as a woman at several international sports events, the official Herald newspaper reported Wednesday.
The paper said the man, a triple jumper and runner who also competed at javelin and shot put, faced charges of impersonation and offending the dignity of a woman athlete who undressed in his presence not realizing he was a man.
The Herald said he won a gold medal at a regional tournament in Botswana last June and won five medals at a youth championship in Mauritius.
The man told the court at his first appearance that he had been born with both female and male organs, and that he lived as a woman after consulting a traditional healer. But the Herald said a medical examination had shown he was male.
I wonder if he is also a rugby fan.
As an aside, Ken came up with another one of those quizes: The Loser Quiz. The farting question did me in...
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