Caster Semenya Allowed To Keep Gold Despite Gender Testing
November 20, 2009 No Comments
Caster Semenya, the runner who caused controversy over her gender, has been allowed to keep her gold medal from the World Athletics Championships in Berlin.
Her gender is still not ’decided’, but this shows she finally has some conclusion and hopefully can get on with being a normal 18-year-old girl.
Results from her gender test will be released in February 2010 and the IAAF has promised to keep these private:
“We have agreed with the IAAF that whatever scientific tests were conducted legally within the IAAF regulations will be treated as a confidential matter between patient and doctor,” the statement read.
“As such there will be no public announcement of what the panel of scientists has found. We urge all South Africans and other people to respect this professional ethical and moral way of doing things.”
Having one’s sex openly debated in public, when one has self-identified as female for one’s whole life, must surely be humiliating, degrading, and depressing.
Let’s hope the authorities have learned their lesson and next time this happens they will show more respect and tact.
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