.Caster Semenya Tested by ASA, by Alfons Juck, Note by Larry Eder
JOHANNESBURG (RSA): World champion Caster Semenya has been tested in South Africa and found to have higher-than-usual testosterone levels, but she is well within the range that allows her to participate in women’s races. Informs South African Mail and Guardian. A week after the controversy broke, fingers are starting to point to the blunders and bad management of Athletics South Africa (ASA), which has been aware of the questions raised about her eligibility to compete in women’s athletics since she started to shine in junior competitions. But the local sports body has done nothing to stem the fallout. Two sources within ASA told the Mail & Guardian this week that the body had “made sure” she was eligible to compete, not by a process of gender verification but by a standard urine test taken by all competing athletes. “She was tested three years ago when she started competing and it was found that she is a woman She may have rather high levels of male hormones, but she is definitely a woman,” a source in ASA said.
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wineturtle RE: Caster Semenya update 8/26/2009 6:07PM - in reply to African traveler Reply | Return to Index | Report Post
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African traveler wrote:
I hope I'm wrong, but having been to Africa (but not South Africa), I'm afraid the vast majority of the commmon people there will not understand the science of this issue. They'll only judge this on genitalia and will think the rest of the world is targeting and subjugating them.
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I can see a prudish white RSA track official with no medical training tasked with the distasteful job of viewing the genitalia of a black taking a perfunctory glance at some thing like this and saying female.
WARNING
EXPLICIT MEDICAL IMAGE OF NORMAL & ABNORMAL FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE ANATOMY
http://www.pennhealth.com/encyclopedia/ency_images/encymulti/images/en/17050.jpg
Sounds like Athletes South Africa Officials did not understand and follow the rules about gender identification being a more complex thing than a peek and a piss.
When are her real test results due back or have they even been done?
I really feel for this poor girl,going through all this because of stupid ASA administraters.
I doubt she will get the chance to be cast as Jessie in the remake of the Jamie Lee Curtis 80s` cult hit Perfect. I read that role helped JLC regain her sense of femininity after all the years of being surrounded by chimera talk.
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Try an interactive/gendertest for yourself.
http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/gendertest/gendertest.html