Sport: Caster SEMENYA An androgynous BLACK WOMAN with an exceptional journey!

A TABOO PHENOMENON IN AFRICA, HYPER ANDROGENISM MEANS, IN A WOMAN, HAS A HIGH LEVEL OF MALE HORMONES. CASTER SEMENYA, SOUTH AFRICAN ATHLETE, THREE-TIME WORLD CHAMPION AND TWO-TIME OLYMPIC CHAMPION IN HER 800-METER DISCIPLINE HAS IT. HER PERFORMANCES ARE ON A REGULAR BASIS CONTROVERSIAL. HOWEVER, WHAT IS THE BLAME AGAINST CASTER SEMENYA?

Daniela Faye

It is the story of an athlete who runs too fast. A sportswoman who has shoulders that are way too square, muscles way too prominent and a voice way too deep. A woman who is criticized for being way too much everything, in a nutshell, but not feminine enough. “I heard that at birth you were a man?”, dared to ask a journalist after her first 800m world champion title in Berlin, in 2009. Ten years have passed since the explosion of Caster Semenya at the highest level of international athletics. A decade crowned with medals (three world titles and two Olympic titles), but nothing has changed with this controversy because the South African athlete is hyper androgenic. This means that her body is producing high levels of male sex…

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