Female runner has male parts

This week, South Africa's minister for women, children and people with disabilities wrote to the United Nations to complain that Semenya had not been treated in line with international protocols on gender and quality.


Noluthando Mayende-Sibiya sent a letter to the U.N. Division for the Advancement of Women, urging it to investigate, SAPA reported.


"The questioning of her gender is based on a stereotypic view of the physical features and abilities attributable to women," she wrote in the letter, according to SAPA. "Such stereotypes demonstrate the extent of patriarchy within the world's sporting community."
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I'm not familiar with the way this controversy started, but I can appreciate the concern about the way Semenya was treated.

However, it's irrelevant. If stereotypes and prejudice are what led to the testing being done, it's unfortunate. But the testing was justified by the results.
 
The testing I don't think was done primarily out of stereotypes, the RUMORS certainly were. The IAAF would have forced the issue anyway under it's own guidelines of what tips the scales. And that ain't appearance.

This case has been handled so poorly it's beyond words to even describe how poorly this was handled.
 
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