EFFORTPOST Caster Semenya - South African Intersex Athlete Drama

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caster_Semenya

About 15 years ago, long before the recent Transwomen in female sports debates that have engulfed Burgerland politics, there existed a South African 800m woman athlete called Casper Semenya. She grew up near Polokwane, the capital of Limpopo province (I worked there from 2019-2020!). She rose to infamy at the speed of greased lightning, the female Usian Bolt of Southern Africa, as she basically dominated and crushed all of her competition from her very earliest and youngest athletic endeavors. Finally her crowning achievement was obtained in 2009, when she won the Olympic Gold in BOTH the 800m and 1500m trach events, basically obliterating her competition. She was 18 years old at the time.

2009 was also when the international shitshow began.

S*X VERIVICATION TEST:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/caster-semenya-faces-s*x-test-before-she-can-claim-victory-d5fksvdhv9r

Okay........so there's no beating around the bush. Semenya doesn't look very......feminine.......

You can see her photo on her wikipedia article, and many of the Mayo femoid athletes whom she basically crushed to bits basically immediately became suspicious that Caster was actually a man taking them all for a ride. Talk about being sour loooooooosers!

But the question was very serious, and eventually the media shitstorm forced the Olympics comittee to take it seriously as well. And eventually a s*x verification test was being discussed.

Now back in South Africa, this set off a turbo nuclear category 5 mega dramastorm. You guys need to understand the context. There is no sensitive way to put it, but a lot of black people, especially black women in post colonial countries suffer from inferiority complex by not being able to fulful what is known as the White Beauty Standards. Now a lot of this is Tumbler shit, where fuggo peeps complain that nobody wants to date them.

But a lot of this is also quite serious, and has had real world ramifications regarding african culture, and how black people see themselves. For context: in america there is an inter race biggotry between Light and Darker skinned African Americans called colourism. This is where lighter skinned black people in burgerland mistreat darker skinned blacks as lessors, and sometimes vice versa. This stemmed both from where many light skinned black peeps are literally the offspring from slavery r*pes, where ironically the slave owners would dote their illigitemate children, and treat them better than the very mothers they sexually coerced. Combined with the fact that the powerful cultural megaphone of european and american media, the unintentional subtext that white is better than black, was poured by Maya media globally for literal centuries

I'm told India has the same issues with Lighter skinned indians being the only actors allowed to be casted in prominent Bollywood, and with "darker" asians like philipinos being treated like trash by all the other SEA states.

The point is this, many South African women basically explode if you you suggest they are less attractive than their mayo/ or pretty much any other racial peers, and the most grievous insult you , could level at black women in Southern Africa is stating they don't look feminine, or that they look mannish compared to the women of the other races. Which incidentally the white afrikaners in their sheer meanness did actually do a lot when they were in power. They were real douchebags

I've also tried to find magazines and newspapers of this time period, but once again linkrot means there's jackshit left. Basically, during this time period in 2009, there was a metric shitload of drama where black women in RSA was called ugly, and national singers had to apologize while being cancelled for stating that black chicks look male, ect. It's especially funny because half of the causes of this gender drama, came from black men where black men themselves prefer dating women from other races; I'm told burgerland has these same r-slurred issues. And as you can imagine this caused nuclear shitstorms all year round in 2009, so when the Caster Semenya drama rolled around, the country was basically primed for autismo armageddon.

SOUTH AFRICAN MEDIA RAGES

The South African press, especially the black ones were raging hard, many felt this a violation of their collective dignity, and with Caster being their subjugate. many felt that the S*x Verification Test was basically those slut Mayo bietches trying to defame Semenya, by taking a low blow to her appearance. But......uhhhh......even back when se was raking in the Gold medals back in RSA, peeps would still make snide jokes about her appearance, which in turn would fan the flames, which in turn........ect

https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tomfordyce/2009/08/semenya_left_stranded_by_storm.html

From Article: "Caster just laughed and asked if they would like her to take off her pants to show them she was a woman," said Seme. "We understand that people will ask questions because she looks like a man. It's a natural reaction and it's only human to be curious." So far, so amusing - but the atmosphere began to change when Semenya charged through her heat and semi-final in such dominant fashion that she was suddenly the red-hot favourite for gold. What had been a story known only to athletics aficionados suddenly had legs. Questions started being asked of athletics' ruling body, the IAAF. The jokes started getting more unpleasant. The 'c' word - cheat - rose to the surface.

Cynics recalled the famous case of German high jumper Dora Ratjen, who competed at the Olympics here in Berlin in 1936 but was later revealed to be a chap named Hermann. The comparison was ridiculous - Ratjen was forced to conceal his gender by the Nazi government and had been born and raised a man - and the reaction from the South African team indignant. :End Article

As the media speculation began to turn ugly, from both those claiming that Semenya was a man, and from those that Semenya's privacy was being violated at a global level.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/08/19/athletics.worlds.berlin.semenya/index.html

But the real shitshow was when the IAAF spokesman Big D*ick Nick Davies said "The gender verification test is an extremely complex procedure," People were like the actual frick can a s*x verification test be complicated, pull her pants down! Of course the test would require blood and stuff to be taken, and extensive testing would need to be done to clinically verify her shit at the genetic level, but the public wasn't in the mood for nuanced answers they wanted ANSWERS NOW!

Finally Semenya was told she would have to take a test, and the following morning, didn't appear for her post race conference: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/athletics/8210471.stm

emenya did not attend a post-race news conference following her success, but IAAF secretary general Pierre Weiss did appear before the media.

From the article: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/08/19/athletics.worlds.berlin.semenya/index.html

"We know you want to talk to her, but she is young, she is inexperienced and she is not able to reply properly to all your questions," he said. "I will answer for her. The decision not to put her up was taken by the IAAF and the South African federation. "I repeat, she was not prepared for a situation like this." Weiss insisted the IAAF had handled the situation as best as it could and defended the timing of the announcement to test Semenya. "She was unknown three weeks ago," he said. "No one could have anticipated this. We are fast but we are not a lion." He added: "If it is proved that she is not a female, she will be withdrawn and the medals revised. At the moment, the athlete must be given the benefit of the doubt."

Even stone hearted dramatards would have felt bad for Semenya, remember she's only 18, and an explosion of international infamy isn't something most people are prepared for.

Back home in RSA the media Frenzy is still ongoing. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2009/aug/20/caster-semenya-s*x-row-athletics

From Article: Jacob Semenya, her father, told the Sowetan newspaper: "She is my little girl. I raised her and I have never doubted her gender. She is a woman and I can repeat that a million times." He attacked his daughter's critics, saying: "For the first time South Africans have someone to be proud of and detractors are already shouting wolf. It is unfair. I wish they would leave my daughter alone." Semenya, who has a muscular build and deep voice, aroused suspicions recently with a dramatic improvement in performance. She went from a virtual unknown to the world's fastest woman over 800m this year when she clocked 1:56.72 at the African junior championships in Mauritius. She sliced more than a second off that with her winning time of 1:55.45 in Berlin on Wednesday.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2009/aug/23/caster-semenya-athletics-gender

S*X VERIFICATION RESULTS:

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/sports/20runner.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/magazine/the-humiliating-practice-of-s*x-testing-female-athletes.html

Eventually the Olympics comittee would take 8 months and not release the result of Semenja's gender tests, and suddenly out of the blue made an anouncement that Caster was cleared for drug use. And everybody was like, "yeah but WTF about her gender r-slurs!" In November 2009, South Africa's sports ministry issued a statement that Semenya had reached an agreement with the IAAF to keep her medal and award. And be allowed to compete with the 2010 events. People were confused, the mayo sluts were angry, South African black women rejoiced! This was a victory against racism!!

JULUIS MALEMA WEIGHTS IN ON THE CASTER SEMENYA CONTROVESY (because of fokken course he does )

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-aug-26-fg-africa-runner26-story.html

It was an r-slured moment for South Africa, as the Semenya controversy became a political and social controversy, many populists like Malema instantly highjacked the conversation and situation as an anti-african racist one.

From article: Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the ex-wife of former President Nelson Mandela, said no one had the right to perform tests on “our little girl” and warned South Africa’s news media to be more patriotic “without insulting one of our own. Use the freedom of press we gave you properly, because we can take it from you.”

Julius Malema, the controversial head of the ANC Youth League, criticized news organizations for questioning Semenya’s gender, which he said undermined all South African women. “Once again the white-controlled media is wrong. . . . Please stop bothering Caster,” he said. Malema also wondered why there weren’t more white South Africans in the crowd to greet Semenya and two other medal-winning athletes. (Malema faces a complaint in South Africa’s Equality Court by an activist organization, Sonke Gender Justice, for saying that a woman who accused Zuma of r*pe in 2006 “had a nice time.”)

Noluthando Mayende-Sibiya, the minister for women, children and people with disabilities, said her department had written to the IAAF to determine why there are doubts about Semenya’s gender. “Is it because she’s a woman? Is it because she’s African? We want to know why this was done,” Mayende-Sibiya said.

The South African parliamentary committee for sports and recreation announced last week that it would lodge a complaint with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights that the tests grossly undermined human rights and privacy. :End of Article

On and on it went, it was a constant one-upmanship of politicians trying to out do each other, about WHY the europeans could POSSIBLY believe that Semenya could be a man. And whooo boi, the black radio commentators didn't hold back, because while the politicians postured the average white and black South African, once they finally SAW Semenya, lololololol. It was like the Chud awakening, no comedian or commentator would be caught without a mistaken gender joke about Caster, because holy shit for the every man she genuinely did fricking look like a man! There were frequent jokes about if his wife looked like Caster, then he would actually obey his wife is she looked like Caster and clean up his drunken act. You know real boomer humour type low grade jokes, because people genuinely thought this was funny, and even black women had to admit in private: "holy shit that b-word looks like a man!"

CASTER GETS TO CONTINUE OLYMPICS

From 2010 to 2014 Caster Semenya would continue her National RSA and International Olympic career with comparative lower yield of drama than 2009, but all the other International atheletes constantly complaining about them feeling like they were being outcompeted by a biological man.

In 2015, a shitload of Russians got caught doping in a heapload of events, with many officials caught taking bribes, and looking the other way, the event caused a big Turnover in the Olympic comittee and the IAAF, which in turn forced their replacedments to reconvene on any other possible controversies to save their reputation, and thus they zeroed in onto Semenya quickly

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/nov/09/wada-iaaf-russia-peepee-pound-banned

TREVOR NOAH MAKES A JOKE ABOUT SEMENYA (and bussyblasts all the pearlclutchers )

Yes the same Trevor Noah of which took over from the Jon guy on the Daily Show - one of the most pro libtard wingcucked pieces of media in existence. But before Trevor became a burger Democrat propaganda tool, he was a turbo based South African comedian, who pulled no punches and understood the unique culture of RSA.

Here in this youtube clip where our boi Trevor Noah basically made a legendary joke about the Caster Semenya fiasco. I'm sorry for beating the joke to death by explaining, it but foreigners will not understand the punchline.

You see in South African languages like Xhosa and Sotho, they don't have gendered pronouns (he/she), and a very common mistake which black people in English curriculum schools make is like: he is my mother. Or she is my uncle. It is famously the greatest mindfrick for south african black peeps to overcome when translating from their home languages into afrikaans or english.

SECOND S*X TEST & BAN:

Finally the reason for why the IAAF didn't want to disclose personal information from Semenya, is that all those years back in 2009, they had determined that Caster was an Intersex individual. Still technically a biological woman, but with a metric shit ton of naturally ocurring testosterone in her system.

You see the 2015 new members of the IAAF had began to ban the administration of too high levels of testosterone in female athletes, as Russian dopers, including russian women, would take testosterone to give them vast edges. What's incredible was that even miniscule amounts of testosterone would give a biological woman, a strong edge, and our girl Caster had like dozens of times the allowable amount of naturally occuring testosterone in her system, basically as much as that of a biological man. This defect was called hyperandrogenism. So Semenya was automatically disqualified, to much rage of sef efricans.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/caster-semenya-testosterone-ruling-gender-science-analysis

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/20/sports/caster-semenya-800-meters.html

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/may/01/caster-semenya-iaaf-behind-scenes-sporting-trial-of-the-century

She's tried to get the Max-Testosterone ruling over-ruled, but even as recent as 2019, the fight raged on with IAAF. Amusingly the IAAF put between two hard places, would jump between 2016 to 2017 about whether the Testosterone rating levels should remain, before finalizing in 2018 that the Max testosterone allowed by biological female athletes would remain permanent.

My favorite black doods on the internet actually weight in on the situation level-headed

And uhh that's it, GOOD NIGHT