Caster Semenya On 'The Race to Be Myself' + Major Revelations From Her Career | FULL INTERVIEW
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- “I make 800 meters. 800 meters does not make me. You must go back to the statistics. You will understand. If you look at my stats, you’ll understand what I mean. So for me, I have no unfinished business in the 800 meters because I have done what I was supposed to do.”
Caster Semenya is a two-time Olympic champion and three-time world champion in the 800 meters. She just released her book, The Race To Be Myself, where she opened up for the first time about the personal and professional effects of taking hormone-suppressing medication for six years following her win at the 2009 World Championships at 18 years old.
Semenya is considered a female athlete with differences in sexual development (DSD) due to her hyperandrogenism, which leads to higher-than-usual levels of natural testosterone in her body. For the past few years, World Athletics has required DSD athletes to medically reduce their testosterone levels in order to compete in events from 400 meters to the mile. As a result, Semenya has not raced her signature event since 2019.
Instead, a lot of her time in the past few years has been focused in the courtroom as she’s taken on several legal battles against World Athletics to have the regulations overturned. Europe’s top human rights court ruled in Semenya’s favor that her appeal to a Swiss Federal Tribunal following the dismissal of her case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport was not properly heard. She’s awaiting a verdict from the European Court of Human Rights. World Athletics issued a statement to Reuters this week saying that the governing body has only ever been interested in protecting the female category.
The book includes a gripping account of how she went to a hospital in South Africa expecting to undergo an anti-doping test only to realize later she was undergoing a gender verification test. Another test followed in Berlin before the World Championship final and then a media storm blew up when she learned about her condition along with the rest of the world when the results of the test were leaked.
The book also includes some interesting and insightful recaps of her races at the London Olympics and the world championships that followed.
I fully understand this is a hotly debated topic within the sport. This isn’t going to be a debate but rather hearing more of Caster’s story now that she’s finally opened up about it and why her focus now shifts to fighting for others.
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Thank you for providing a platform for Caster's voice, and messages. A complex conversation but she humanizes it - as it should be. Can't wait to read the book!
This is an infinitely incorrect man, and you applaud him?
What a wonderful surprise. Looking forward to reading her book. History will see Semenya as an important person in the athletes rights journey. What a class act Caster is.❤🎉❤
So inspirational, this is what TRUSS means
Her story defines everything of what TRUSS is , Caster was chosen for this , she is gifted & Guided , hope she continues to live in her truth , she is UNIQUE 💯
You are a superstar girl.
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Question. How are biological women able to compete against her in sports when she has so many characteristics the majority of women will never have? And I'm not being mean as I ask this.
I understand your question. Well Dsd Intersex athletes needed to reduce testosterone levels to below 5ml the cut off point to run between 400m to 1 mile
However March 2023 this is now 2.5ml for a full 6 month period and this is for any event from 100m to 10,000m. Then intersex athletes are allowed to run in female events. Some will reduce to 2.5ml and run next season Mboma and Masilingi
@@brokenrulerlabs so… a male is a person with XY chromosomes. This person has XY CHROMOSOME, so he’s a male. He did not grow breasts and does not have a period. He has testes that did not drop. He has undeveloped sex organ that appear like a large clit. It happens some times. I’m so sorry for the biological differences that are so confusing. It is not his fault. I’m sure taking female hormones messed up his sex life and did permanent damage to his male body. That’s why he was tested and the results are still male. He’s now a married man with a child by his wife. He seems like a very nice guy…very handsome. But he is definitely a male. There is a big difference between male and female…sometimes the lines are blurred but genetic testing is the truth. So the sex categories should always be female and male. And genetic/chromosome testing will let us know whether they are XX -male or XY- female.
@@kocoaberry7041 the world is better when we are all silent, by your calculation right?
The question is why are transgender women who are born male allowed to compete with women and ALWAYS win??
@@jilldambrosio4273Shouldn't be allowed for transgender.
Intersex is different they are born females, but with DSD and high testosterone levels over 5ml+. Male testosterone begins at 7.7ml
They really did her dirty!
😡🤢🤮
Especially with what is happening now!
She's a strong woman. God bless her and her family!
👏🏾👍🏾💪🏾👌🏾❤️🙏🏾
The devil only shows up when one is successful!
Caster is male and has a DSD that ONLY affects males. Males with this condition appear female at birth and are raised as girls. At puberty it becomes clear they’re males. Regardless of what Caster believes, Caster is male.
Caster has a DSD that ONLY affects males.