The International Association of Athletics Federations has reportedly ordered a gender verification test for South Africa’s Caster Semenya. The eighteen-year-old won Gold in the woman’s 800m final at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin.
According to media reports,
the IAAF are testing to see whether Semenya has a rare genetic disorder that means she has female genitalia but male chromosomes.
Does that mean she is not a woman?????
Did they really have to humiliate Caster at such a huge global event? How is she going to cope when all this circus has ended?
Lowe Morna, executive director of Gender Links in South Africa said gender testing was wrong.
“What would such a test involve, determining if a person looks or thinks or acts like a woman or a man? And how exactly does a woman or man think or look or act?
“She is being questioned on the basis of our assumptions about how a woman should look and behave, not the biological facts.
“If Semenya helps us to see past all that has made our society blind to these possibilities for women, rendering them politically, socially and economically second class citizens in our society, her agony will not have been in vain,” Lowe Morna said.
Caster has come a long way to win Gold at the World Athletics Championships….surely if she was a man this could have been sorted out a long time ago. Stop insulting this girl…..
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