Caster Semenya
Sep. 19th, 2009 10:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
londonronnieI'm feeling desperately sorry for Caster Semenya, the South African athlete.
Bad enough that she's having to go through all these invasive investigations into her gender in the full glare of the public spotlight, now it seems that the SA authorities knew that there were likely to be questions raised and yet they allowed her to take part in the World Championships instead of dealing with the issue quietly at home.
She's 18 years old, for god's sake. Just a kid. Can you imagine having to contend with something like this when you were 18? God only knows how she's going to deal with it all.
Bad enough that she's having to go through all these invasive investigations into her gender in the full glare of the public spotlight, now it seems that the SA authorities knew that there were likely to be questions raised and yet they allowed her to take part in the World Championships instead of dealing with the issue quietly at home.
She's 18 years old, for god's sake. Just a kid. Can you imagine having to contend with something like this when you were 18? God only knows how she's going to deal with it all.
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Date: 2009-09-20 03:32 pm (UTC)I agree... *nod, nod*
This affair is blown up, and shown in such a bad way...
poor girl... she's only my age... *hugs her*