First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper.
Caster Semenya is no stranger to challenges. That comes with the territory of being a world-class athlete. Every day is a new challenge to be better, to run faster and to keep the competition at bay.
Those are aspects of her sport and life Semenya can control. But in Semenya’s case, the double Olympic 800m champion has the additional challenge of proving her legitimacy to compete as a female.
She is forced, by science and law, to prove that she belongs in the field of female athletes and is “categorised” female, regardless of how she identifies herself.
FILE - In this Sunday, June 30, 2019 file photo, South Africa s Caster Semenya smiles after winning the women s 800-meter race during the Prefontaine Classic, an IAAF Diamond League athletics meeting, in Stanford, Calif. USA. Caster Semenya s lawyer said Tuesday Nov. 17, 2020, they will take her case against the world track and field federation to the European Court of Human Rights in what s likely to be a last-ditch legal challenge against regulations that require the South African and some other female athletes to artificially lower their natural testosterone levels to compete. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
Semenya taking case to European Court of Human Rights
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