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Yet again the public have been subjected to the barrage of the sensational gutter press.
What has taken place is absolutely despicable, who determined that Caster Semenya was not a female and who called for the gender testing, which to do so publicly was a crime of the highest sort?
Does anyone think that by testing Caster Semenya to determine her sexuality that everyone is to be forgiven for behaving in a manner which is an embarrassment to the human race?
Semenya is not the first female athlete or the last to be subjected to questions about their gender however no athlete before the young teenager has ever been subjected to such a large public demonizing where the calling for 'gender testing' is seen as acceptable.
There were always loose comments made about Maria Mutola but she was not subjected to a gender test or to such a public barrage.
On principle, ASA and the young athlete should object to such testings unless all female athletes are subjected to the same testing procedure.
Before Semenya there were many powerfully built athletes, the Senegal's Amy Mbacke Thiam , to name but one.
She has been to a number of World Championships and Olympic Games but was she ever subjected to such haressment in such a manner or even asked to prove her gender in the 'public gallery'?
Who fed this story to the press and how did it come about that a young girl should be put through such mental anguish?
Have we no shame left in our society that we could ever concoct behaviour so despicable that it has been discussed in a manner that is disgraceful and hurtful to the young teenager?
When Pamela Jelimo came on the scene in 2008 with such a force people started saying she was more like a man than a woman and when she won the Beijing Olympics there was still no call for 'gender testing'.
Yet now the public feel it is their right to ask this of Caster Semenya
When Ana Guevara flexed her muscles,
we heard no one ask for her to have a 'gender test', so why Caster Semenya?
Who determines who should have a gender test and who should not?
If Caster Semenya, who on her South African Identity Document it states FEMALE, is subjected to this test then all athletes need to be subjected to all these so important tests that the IAAF consider is necessary to determine whether the young teenager should not be considered as a female, going against how she has grown up her whole life.
Can we not see how our behaviour is disgraceful or are we so easily drawn in to conclusions by what the press via sensationalism feed us, that we have forgotten our humanity?
Good luck Caster Semenya, you have displayed a courage and grace not seen very often.
Proudly South African
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