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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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Bueno, tu hermano es muy joven, evidentemente. Testorona varía tanto entre un mismo sexo que un argumento así no se puede tomar en serio. Y sí, la mayoría de las personas biologicamente masculinas producen más. Hay mujeres cis-sexuales que producen más que hombres cis-sexuales. Que se compare con dopping es una cosa muy estúpida que decir. Dopping es trampa, ser intersexual no. No hay argumento. Y, en mi opinión que le quiten a alguien sus medallas por eso, es como que descubran que Bolt y Phelps tienen ventaja biológicas, que se yo, metabolismo o algo (que seguro las tienen) y les quiten las medallas. Y en lo que no es tanto mi opinión sino una verdad, es simplemente ser hijo de puta, sus meritos atleticos no están dados por la cantidad de testos terona que producen (o no, mira el caso de Soundajaran *rolls eyes*), hay otras atletas cis que no son tan buenas que producen más que otras que fueron despojadas por ser intersex, Monica escribió sobre algunos casos). Mira que Semenya tampoco es la mujer que ha roto todos los records, solo es muy buena, pero evidentemente las otras pueden competir con ella. No es una Bolt o algo (que yo me pregunto si sus contrincantes pueden competir con él). Pero todos sabemos que a las mujeres que "fallan" estos tests de mierda no se les trata de la misma manera. (Te digo, mira el síndrome de Santhi Soundajaran. Y ya ves como le fue. Testosterona poco importa)

Hay mujeres cis-sexuales que producen más que hombres cis-sexuales.

Que algunos hombres cissexuales. Por supuesto son la minoría, pero existen.

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