Editing Stanisława Walasiewicz (section)

== Intersex status ==
An autopsy after Walsh's death showed that she was [[intersex]], although her precise condition was not made clear. According to reports, she had a male reproductive system including a non-functioning [[Hypoplasia|underdeveloped]] penis, an abnormal urethra, small testes, and a small prostate. She lacked female sex organs, such as a vagina, uterus, or ovaries.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cohn |first=Victor |date=January 23, 1981 |title=Famed Olympic Medalist Stella Walsh Wasn't a 'She,' Autopsy Finds |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1981/01/24/famed-olympic-medalist-stella-walsh-wasnt-a-she-autopsy-finds/a4102ef3-7307-40f1-acd5-abcd13bb26e3/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827152514/https://www.washingtonpost.com/web/20170827152514/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1981/01/24/famed-olympic-medalist-stella-walsh-wasnt-a-she-autopsy-finds/a4102ef3-7307-40f1-acd5-abcd13bb26e3/?utm_term=.bc3c7ac3febb |archive-date=August 27, 2017 |access-date=May 21, 2024 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |quote=What the autopsy showed to the examiner's eyes was that Walsh had only a "hypoplastic" or tiny, incomplete -- if still obvious -- penis with no normal opening, and equally small testes. She had no female organs, external or internal, according to the report. She had "masculine" breasts, it said, and an abnormal urinary opening near the scrotum.}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Cohn |first=Victor |date=February 13, 1981 |title=Stella Walsh Found By Coroner to Have Mainly Male Genes |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1981/02/13/stella-walsh-found-by-coroner-to-have-mainly-male-genes/2f598f52-98e5-4884-b928-d1b35246f3ab/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827164828/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1981/02/13/stella-walsh-found-by-coroner-to-have-mainly-male-genes/2f598f52-98e5-4884-b928-d1b35246f3ab/ |archive-date=August 27, 2017 |access-date=May 21, 2024 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |quote=Coroner Samuel Gerber made it clear the runner, an Olympic gold medal winner in 1932 and a competitor into the 1950s, had only male sex organs, though small, nonfunctional ones.}}</ref><ref name="tullis2013">{{cite web |author=Tullis |first=Matt |date=June 27, 2013 |title=Who was Stella Walsh? The story of the intersex Olympian |url=https://www.sbnation.com/longform/2013/6/27/4466724/stella-walsh-profile-intersex-olympian |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230610042700/https://www.sbnation.com/longform/2013/6/27/4466724/stella-walsh-profile-intersex-olympian |archive-date=June 10, 2023 |access-date=May 21, 2024 |website=[[SB Nation]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Ritchie |first1=Robert |last2=Reynard |first2=John |last3=Lewis |first3=Tom |date=2008-08-01 |title=Intersex and the Olympic Games |journal=Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine |language=en |volume=101 |issue=8 |pages=395–399 |doi=10.1258/jrsm.2008.080086 |issn=0141-0768 |pmc=2500237 |pmid=18687862 |quote=A post-mortem examination confirmed that Walsh possessed ambiguous genitalia and abnormal sex chromosomes, although the exact DSD was not established.}}</ref> Walsh also reportedly had [[genetic mosaicism]]. Most of her cells contained [[XY sex-determination system|XY chromosomes]], but some contained a single [[Turner syndrome|X0]] chromosome.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=February 12, 1981 |title=Tests Show Athlete Had 2 Chromosome Types |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/12/us/tests-show-athlete-had-2-chromosome-types.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211229182957/https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/12/us/tests-show-athlete-had-2-chromosome-types.html |archive-date=December 29, 2021 |access-date=May 21, 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]] |agency=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref> [[Cuyahoga County, Ohio|Cuyahoga County]] coroner Samuel Gerber said that Walasiewicz was "socially, culturally and legally" a woman, but that her sex would have been ambiguous at birth.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="tullis2013" />

The neighborhood she grew up in was to an extent aware of her condition and saw no reason to bring it to outsiders attention. A childhood friend recalled her once saying aloud she wondered why God had done this to her.