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Caster Semenya Case Opening Old Wounds
But as I know from my time on planet Earth, if an African descended female athlete excels in spectacular fashion, we get accused of cheating or have ‘that’s a man’ shade hurled at us.
When you combine it with the hypercompetitive world of international sports in which national pride and prestige is on the line, it was inevitable that somebody would try to find a way to knock this talented runner out of international competition, especially with the 2012 London Olympic Games on the horizon. [...]
Continental Africans still haven’t forgotten how 800m runner and 2000 Olympic champion Maria Mutola of Mozambique was dogged throughout her illustrious decade long career by ‘that’s a man’ accusations despite passing test after test.
The way the Semenya case has been handled by the IAAF has only crystallized that impression on the mother Continent.
It’s probably why officials in South Africa are backing her all the way. Makhenkesi Stofile, South Africa’s sports minister said that Semenya and her family maintain she was gender-tested without her consent and that lawyers were being consulted over possible action.
In addition, Stofile has written to the IAAF demanding an apology and seeking a response to those Australian reports claiming that she’s intersex.
Yes, if he IAAF had questions, they should have quietly done those tests. Somebody leaked the info in Berlin that got this hot mess started. It’s also not a coincidence that another leak in this case results in an Australian newspaper publishing those allegations that Stofile reacted to with “shock and disgust”.
You have to feel for Semenya in this case. It has not only put her personal business out there, but has been done so in the most humiliatingly public way possible
In the meantime, her athletic future rests on the results of the gender test and an IAAF Council meeting set to take place in Monaco November 20-21.
Semenya has also received some advice and support from India’s Santhi Soundajaran, the last woman to be subjected to this type of withering international scrutiny.
“She should not let them take away her medal or allow one test to determine her fate. “She is a woman and that’s it, full stop,” Soundarajan says. “A gender test cannot take away from you who you are.”
Even if the people behind this are determined to take away her 800m world championship.
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TL,DR?
Hoy me peleé horriblemente con mi hermano, porque según él es un tema biológico: "Si tiene más testosterona en el cuerpo, es como si fuera una mujer normal usando esteroides", según él. Acto seguido procedió a compararlo con una persona con uso de las piernas participando en una carrera para discapacitados. Sobra decir que sólo la presencia de mi mamá impidió que le pegara.
Lo peor es, mi hermano quiere ser doctor y tiene 14 años. Y la verdad, la forma en que la prensa aquí en Chile ha tratado el tema es horrorosa, no justifico que mi hermano piense así, pero no se puede decir que no esté mal influenciado. Partiendo porque la manera en que se ha presentado a Semeneya es como "la hermafrodita", término más inaccurate que la cresta, y horriblemente deshumanizante además.
Deseo de todo corazón que no vayan a quitarle la medalla a esta chica por ser intersex. El mundo sigue siendo un lugar muy negro para los que no son cisgénero.
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Que algunos hombres cissexuales. Por supuesto son la minoría, pero existen.