Posted on 09/08/2009 3:33:47 PM PDT by IbJensen
South Africa's world 800m champion Caster Semenya said the gender debate that has erupted around her is "a joke", in an interview with a South African magazine that posed her in a fashion shoot.
"I see it all as a joke, it doesn't upset me. God made me the way I am and I accept myself. I am who I am and I'm proud of myself," she told You magazine, South Africa's biggest-selling English-language magazine.
Semenya appeared on the cover of the magazine's latest edition, but the masculine runner's makeover in stilettos and liquid skinny jeans only served to revive the national debate about gender and what it means to be a woman.
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) announced shortly before her win at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin last month that the 18-year-old would have to undergo a barrage of tests aimed at verifying her gender.
"I don't want to talk about the tests -- I'm not even thinking about them," she told the magazine.
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(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Semenya? Unfortunate name for a girl or whatever...
Could have been worse:
Semeninya
Doh!
just watched the video and trust me, that is a man.
here is the link, set it for full screen and watch the deceptive posture, looking through the top of eyes and shifting eyes to right.
http://www.breitbart.tv/gender-row-athlete-goes-home-to-cheers-in-south-africa/
Semen? That was an unusual name for a ‘girl’ but perhaps appropriate for a New South African transsexual weirdo.
Whoa. That’s no woman. Unless “she” is all roided up and has been since infancy...
It's a he/she for certain.
Only in today's corrupt, evil South Africa can something like this happen.
No breasts.
It's a MAN, BABY!"
Looks like a man to me too.....where is Crocodile Dundee when you need him?
It’s amazing how a fresh shave and a new dress can really bring out your feminine side.
I was wondering why it didn’t look like a woman. The shave part explains it, I think.
(Among many many other reasons ...)
I have no opinion until the gender test comes back. I just posted the pix.
I wouldn’t trust the gender test. It is a battery of new age tests and progressive experts trying to determine if the psyche is male or female.
In the old days, we look for a Y chromosome.
That is not a woman.
Are you sure that psychobabble stuff is the standard in the world of athletic competition?
That was the explanation given why it took so long to do the test. They did not think that the Y chromosome test was accurate any more for some strangely worded and confusing reasons.
And yes, they said it takes a multidisciplinary team including psychologists and gender identity specialists to figure out if the soul inside is pink or blue.
Go figure.
The politicization of science. Feh.
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