This Is Not Natural

After Caster Semenya  won gold in the 800 meters in the 2009 world chapionship she was in question about her gender just because of how she dominated in that particular race. I think questioning someone’s gender just because they excited expectations and because they may have masculine features is wrong and humiliating to the women athlete. To me if she beat the world record by 2 seconds I would just question if she was using performance enhancing drugs not if she was a man. Semenya is a female because she entered into a female race for the world championship and I think that the world championship committee would know through physical and other types of measures would know if she was a man. Plus if she was a man and got by the worked championship board would fell pretty foolish.  To me she is a woman because she does show female characteristics and she could have developed the body she has just by the way she trains and her diet. For the news to make assumptions about this women being a man was wrong and humiliating to her. They just made an assumption based on looks and not true facts. It’s not like she broke the world record by 2 seconds all she did was beat the fastest time set for that year. The media and the other athletes who ran against her were just looking for a scape goat saying she’s a man just because she dominated the field on that day. They didn’t take in consideration that maybe she just trained hard and work hard every day to get into the best possible shape to compete. I would be embarrassed for calling someone a man when they clearly are women. Just because a woman has a muscular body type doesn’t mean she’s a man, she just has a muscular body type. 

I think that when Semenya after the fact that they proved she was a woman kind of sold out when she went on the cover of  You and received a makeover. I think she should have embraced the way she looked instead of letting people making her look more womanly.  At the same time it showed that she was willing to make a change to show she was a woman  which is fine but she should have said this is the way I look and I’m fine with it.