It is not known for certain what, if any, procedures were undergone by Semenya, who won a silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics. Especially, Pape said, if that athlete is non-gender-conforming and is married to another woman, as Semenya is. “When we look at it objectively, Caster Semenya is no more exceptional than they are,” Pape, who is a doctoral student in sociology at the University of Wisconsin, said in an email. Let athletes compete as who they are. “God made me the way I am, and I accept myself,” Semenya told You, a South African magazine, in 2009.

Source: New York Times August 19, 2016 02:00 UTC