By now you may be aware of the news surrounding South Africas 800 metre sprint sensation Caster Semenya. After setting an 800 metre world record sprint time at the ongoing Berlin Olympics, rumours of "her" gender have clouded her victory. Is she a "she"? That is the question.
Semenya looks anything but an 18 year old girl. Semenya also acts anything but a woman. At the finishing line of the 800 metre race in Berlin she performed weird gestures that are uncharacteristic of females. Her pictures circulating on the internet also show a small bulge on her trunks depicting what looks like a not so well endowed male organ. The whole fiasco is dumb founding!
Yet can any person be judged on looks alone? Why was she not tested before the race as this is not the 1st time these rumours have erupted around her? Is she a victim of an unfair process? Why has this been announced before the test results are out?
Interestingly her former High School Headmaster even admitted that he only discovered Semenya was female when she was about to graduate! But her father has said he is prepared to say a hundred times that Semenya is a girl. Her grandmother is shocked! Her mother cannot understand why the world is being cruel to her little girl.
I am looking at pictures of Semenya right now. She does not look or act like a woman. What tests are they going to conduct on her? How? Where? When? Who? Many questions, little answers.
Your thoughts!
