IAAF: Caster Semenya is a Hermaphrodite!
News from within the IAAF has again leaked via the Sydney Morning Herald. The same journalist who broke the story initially.
The newpaper alledges the IAAF initiated tests concluded that Caster Semenya is a hermaphrodite.
Meaning she has external female organs, but no ovaries or womb.
Instead she has male testes that produces high testosterone levels.
It has been reported that the IAAF have unsuccesfully tried to get hold of Semenya through Athletics SA.
So someone in the IAAF leaked the medical records of an eighteen year old to the media.
What a disgrace!
And that applies to the ASA who obviously must have been aware from the start that not all was well with the Semenya results.
It is said she will be allowed to keep her World Championship 800m gold medal, but another one will be given to the athlete who placed second.
Apparently, Semenya will be allowed to compete in IAAF events after she has the testes surgically removed and receives female hormones for two years.
However, the ASA and Semenya could take the case to a tribunal in Switzerland and get a ruling. The same way our blade runner, Oscar Pistorius, did.
2 Responses to “IAAF: Caster Semenya is a Hermaphrodite!”
By Maggy on Sep 17, 2009 | Reply
I think it is not for fair Caster and her family the way the media handles the issue of her being a male or a female.Who are we to jugde Caster like that.Our own reporters,our own media the way they treated caster and publisized her confidentiality is not appropriate.I am a big fan of Caster.All I wanted to say to her is that we support you every step of the way.God has a purpose on why he created you like that.Let people say what they want to say about you,only be proud of yourself and never feel that you are a mistake coz you are not.You are a BLESSING to some of us.I am proud of you cox you accepted the way God that has created you.
By Abigail Abrahams on Sep 18, 2009 | Reply
I agree with you Maggie…I wish someone could gender test that idiot Leonard Chuene of ASA! As it’s his fault that Semenya and her family was put through this media scrutiny.