Suffering for what she can not change

Caster Semenya is an 18 year old South African athlete who has been subjected to trauma by the public scrutiny for the fate she can not change. Semenya unlike most women is muscular, flat-chested and can easily be mistaken for a man. After winning the 800m women’s race in Berlin speculation about her sex and possible doping started circulating.

If Semenya is not cleared to be a woman by the tests being carried out by the IAAF she faces the risk of losing her medal; the IAAF says it will only release the results in November. However the leaked results of these tests suggest that Semenya is a hermaphrodite meaning she has both male and female organs. My questions on this mater are what define a woman or a man? If Caster is not a woman or a man then what is she? More so, who determines these categories, scientists?

Considering the fact that Caster has survived 18 years of her life as a woman, is it fair for her to be treated the way she has been treated? Recently the IAAF released another document which said they are about to come up with a formula for defining a woman, is it because Semenya who does not look like a woman won the race? If she had not won the race in Berlin, would the case still be the same? Would she have gone through the tests? Well no one knows.

The life and carrier of an innocent young girl has been tarnished by human cruelty and selfishness, what is this world coming to? She is suffering because of a fate she can not change. It is not her fault, SHE DESERVES TO BE TREATED BETTER!!!