September Meadows
Ellensburg, WA

I fear Caster will now think there’s something wrong with her. She seemed to me to be a young woman who was just being herself, quite comfortable in her own skin and proud of her remarkable talent. It’s sad and unfair that she’s now going to be hauled off to doctors to be violated and made to feel like a freak. All women should be outraged about this.

I remember reading a scare mongering article in the (awful) Daily Mail newspaper years ago about Amelie Mauresmo. It said that some of Mauresmo’s opponents had accused her of being a man. The article said Mauresmo was probably intersex and that she’d likely dominate women’s tennis for years because of the inbuilt advantages she had because of being intersex (Well, she’s had a successful career but she hasn’t dominated, and I don’t even think she is intersex) But the point this article was making was that lots of intersex women were going to come along and take over women’s tennis and how unfair that would be for “normal” women. It’s sad to see this sort of hysteria happening again to Caster.

I hope Caster is allowed to carry on competing. I want to see her winning more medals and breaking records.

Germaine Greer is a fool. Don’t take any notice of her. She’s irrelevant these days.

Ghastly parady vs transsexual being a “slur.” Those are some pretty strong convictions.

Regardless of whether or not Caster is a cisfemale (which I truly think she is) the bigger issue is the poking and prodding to *prove* that femaleness and making it a global headline.

However, my focus on CASTER SEMENYA, THE BLACK WOMAN WHO IS BEING TREATED LIKE A CHEAT is because there is a HUGE problem with that being overlooked by some known transphobic’s easily predictable comments. Or are you saying there is no surprise whatsoever in the gender testing?

As I said, she doesn’t deserve this treatment but the irony- yes IRONY- in a woman from South Africa being accused of being a man is that her top defenders at home are JUST AS TRANSPHOBIC. They wouldn’t defend her if she were born male, they’d throw her under the bus and he made that inherently clear- I don’t know about you but I see a MAJOR problem with that. Just because the words used weren’t big or white enough for your liking doesn’t make it any less offensive in my book.

I think Caster Semenya is a cisfemale but because she’s black and doesn’t appear female enough that it all comes to question. Usain Bolt contnues to break world record after world record and no one DARES questions his masculinity or even whether or not he’s taken some sort of performance enhancement drug and you want t make this all about a white woman?

I truly do feel for her, because no one should ever have to go through this especially when we know that a male competitor HAS compete with the women before in the Olympics and pretty much everyone knew he was a male. But he was from Germany, Hitler was in power so no one said a word.