Caster Semenya Offered To Show Her Body To Track Officials To Prove She's Female
essence.comCaster Semenya is sharing her frustration with trying to prove her womanhood to track officials in order to compete.In a new interview with HBO Real Sports, which aired this week, the 31-year-old South African track star recalled how, as a teenager, she offered to show her body to officials at World Athletics to prove she was a female.
World Athletics is the international governing body for track and field.According to Reuters, Semenya, came onto the scene in 2009 as an 18-year-old rookie.
She won the women’s 800m at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin by a stunning margin and then was subjected to sex verification testing.
Since then, she has faced years of scrutiny about her gender.“They thought I had a d–k probably,” she said in the interview. “I told them, ‘It’s fine.
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