Caster Semenya Argumentative Essay

According to Pierre de Vos Gold medal favourite, Caster Semenya is in hot pursuit to claim the 800m track and field at the 2016 Rio Olympics games. As usual, there are many who do not share this hope, many critics are suggesting otherwise, saying that she should not be allowed to compete due to her high testosterone which supposedly gives her an “unfair advantage” over her opponent. Even though many of these claims seem to hold no truth critics still remain sceptical whether if Caster is truly a woman or do we simply have to ask are we just so badly indoctrinated by societal myths ? After winning the 800m at the world athletics championship in 2009, South African athlete Mokgadi Caster Semenya has been under the spotlight about her sex, and

They compared testosterone levels of 693 top athletes from 15 different sporting categories, its finding was that 16.5% of men had testosterone in the lower level range for typical males and 13.7% of females the females had the upper level range for typical females. Creating a spectrum between the testosterone levels from male to female. Different athletes excel for different reasons such as genetic and biological variation which gives some athletes a natural advantage over others, Silvia Camporesi called it “ as a source of inborn excellence”. Which leads us to if there is no scientific evidence what could be fueling the fire? Society clearly has a very big role to play in this argument , superficially Semenya is seen as not being the “normal female” and because she doesn’t superficially comply with this “standard ”people tend to ostracize her because she don’t fit into a group. we have been so innocently indoctrinated by this image of what women should look like or behave like, we reject any other variation of a female. Pierre de Vos suggests that especially in a male dominated society where these groups are constantly being monitored and controlled to uphold this “perfect