Gender politics

Why is it a sad day for women's international track and field sports? It was announced that the test resutls for Caster Sememya won't be released to the public, but she will get to keep the title to the races and title she won in Berlin in August. Why does this smell of politics between the South African sports union and the international sports federation? And under the table deal to keep from going public with the obvious?

So, what about all those tests, some of which were leaked and some of which prompted the doctors in South Africa to recommend she not go and compete in Berlin? Did they lie? Hardly. And what if in time, it is proven she is not female by birth and has not gone through a transistion required of transathletes, and in truth is an underdeveloped boy? And maybe the testes woke up to start working, which may explain the sudden burst in her times in less than two years.

I'm sorry for her, but being raised female doesn't make you physically female if the genes and resultant developement isn't there. The earlier repots cited she didn't have a female reproductive system - meaning no ovaries or uterus, she had undedescended testes, and she had elevated level of testosterone, even higher than normal female athletes. A girl she may be, but a female she is not.

I'm sorry for all the women athletes who were cheated of the truth and cheated of fair competition. In order to save face, organizers decided one person was above the rest. That's discrimination at best, and whatever you want to call it at worse. I think, all apologies aside to Caster, the truth should be revealed. It has in the past for female athletes, so why is this case different?

Everyone should have been up front about this. She put herself on center stage in Berlin. She should accept the consequences of that and the decisions what's fair for the sport, not herself, which seems what is happening. And the leaders are simply exercising gender politics as usual.