el presidentes wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong. If someone had AIS, they wouldn't respond to the testosterone. Therefore, high levels of testosterone wouldn't affect her body type or performance. Women with AIS are usually very female looking. They have normal breast development, etc. Caster doesn't seem to have this.
It's entirely possible that if Caster has CAIS that she has not yet reached puberty, after puberty the testosterone is converted to oestrogen (aromatisation) and breasts develop etc. Of course a prepubescent CAIS child who did the appropriate exercise could benefit from the anabolic effects, it's only the androgen receptors that are blocked.
Women with AIS also have testosterone levels like a man. Caster doesn't. This leads me to believe that she doesn't have AIS, despite the lack of female reproductive organs and the presence of undescended testes.
You're right and the report of 3x normal female testosterone could mean that it is not AIS. We're working off limited (and possibly wrong) information, one thing if sure, she isn't a hermaphrodite!