Semenya

It has been at least a week if not two since we talked about Caster Semenya, but recently there was an article on ESPN talking about the situation. I was actually really surprised that the IAAF enforced the fact the Semenya needed to do a gender test because the article starts out instantly by saying that Semenya's test results are going to be coming out very soon.

In my personal opinion, I think that it is wrong to do this. Granted everyone in class, including me, thought she looked very much like a guy with her body featuers and how much she dominated the heat. However, the issue is the fact that an 18 year old girl, who is probably going through enough in her life already, is being forced to show that she is actually a woman. Now, it may not seem like a huge deal, but you go through 18 years of your life and have a person tell you that you may not be a male/female and try to go live a normal life. I could not imagine the amount of people that probably say stuff about her all the time and now that is her life because even after these tests come back, everyone will still think that she has some male in her, just like if there ever was a steroid test that showed that Barry Bonds never took steroids. It would not matter because everyone would still think that he cheated some how some way. There is no way around it.

http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/news/story?id=4455424

Here is the article, but overall I would like to know what everyone feels about the situation. I understand both sides, but i just think that the age of the girl and the effects this will have on her life are far to big to have made her do this test.