Caster Semenya; is she or is...?
Aug. 19th, 2009 11:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eumeliaJust this evening, at the Berlin World Track and Field Championships, Caster Semenya of South Africa won the 800 metre distance run.
I saw it on teevee and I was amazed.
She left them all in the dust, a few of the other athletes were utterly bewildered.
Now she faces a gender probe, more info here.
That is, she's going to go under the invasive procedure of "making sure" she's female, because she did too well in her field.
Such is the fate of female athletes who are too successful.
I don't know what how Semenya ID's, nor do I care, however, her appearance is butch... too butch for the comfort of the athletics committee.
Diversity within female "sex" is verboten, obviously.
I'm smelling the misogyny, transphobia, homophobia and racism from here, in my little dusty room.
Maybe one day athletic categories will be divided through comparative abilities, rather than through gender segregation.
I saw it on teevee and I was amazed.
She left them all in the dust, a few of the other athletes were utterly bewildered.
Now she faces a gender probe, more info here.
That is, she's going to go under the invasive procedure of "making sure" she's female, because she did too well in her field.
Such is the fate of female athletes who are too successful.
I don't know what how Semenya ID's, nor do I care, however, her appearance is butch... too butch for the comfort of the athletics committee.
Diversity within female "sex" is verboten, obviously.
I'm smelling the misogyny, transphobia, homophobia and racism from here, in my little dusty room.
Maybe one day athletic categories will be divided through comparative abilities, rather than through gender segregation.
