Intersexuality in Sports (Semenya)

First of all, I want to eliminate the term of a Human Hermaphrodite, because they simply don't exist. A hermaphrodite is defined as animal or plant that has both male and female reproductive organs, which is most typically found in invertebrate animals. Hermaphrodites can reproduce using either their female or male reproductive organs, while Inter-sexual human beings are incapable of deciding to use either one. Typically with inter-sexuality in humans the person is either more male than female or more female than male (,and NEVER equally male and female), deeming the weaker sexual organ useless. And in some rare cases a human can be born without any reproductive organs and is not deemed male or female. With that said, Caster Semenya an 800 meter runner has been sweeping the event as a young female out of high school, but her opponents complain that she is a man. Yes, she does have an abnormally deep voice and masculine features (according to societies views of masculinity), but she is legally a woman. She was born a woman with sexual abnormality that gave her small testis that are inside of her body. She has been tested for testosterone levels because of the testis and results show that she has normal amounts of testosterone in her body. All this being said, she still looks like a she can be either a male or female, but the problem is not with her, it is with society. Society has deemed what is essentially male or female, masculine or feminine and the time has come to break the barriers of stereotypes of how a man or woman should look/feel/act/be. The real question is, who is willing to break traditions for the sake of 1.7% of the human population?

-Stephan May
Kin 339I M 7pm