South Korean clubs want female footballer to take gender test, or threaten boycott

Star of the womens South Korean league, Park Eun-Seon, is too good to be a woman, according to the twisted logic of six of the seven rival league clubs.

Park, top scorer for Seoul City Amazones last season with 19 goals in 22 games, has been accused of feigning

womanhood, and has been formally asked to take a gender test to prove she is a woman.

In a pretty unedifying scandal, the Amazons have justifiably reacted with outrage, saying,

We have no intention of accepting the gender verification test just to stop the boycott.

“But if it is needed for Park to compete in an international game and under specific regulations of Fifa, we will consider it.”

Park, who has had aspersions cast over her gender several times in the past due to her somewhat androgynous appearance, has actually had to suffer the indignity of taking a gender test several times in the past – and passed entirely normally – says she has no intention of bowing to the bullying.

“I have gone through the gender examination thing several times. I did it in a World Cup, in an Olympics and in several others and there were no problems.

“I’ve worked so hard to get to this point, and I will not give up easily. I know what these people are trying to do, and I won’t fall down.”