Covering a Topic Episode 1: Biased Olympics
The Dilemma of Caster Semenya’s Participation/categorization Disclaimer: as a blogger, when I try to talk about a topic. I do it to not only enhance my knowledge on the subject but to also understand and be empathetic towards all viewpoints and perspectives, I have tried to be completely unbiased while presenting the facts on whether Caster Semenya should be allowed to participate in these athletic events. Caster Semenya , an athlete who has shined as a beacon of hope and idolization despite all the controversy that she is constantly wrapped in, had this to say about the challenges that she had to face just in order to compete in something that she holds immensely dear, “I am Mokgadi Caster Semenya. I am a woman and I am fast. You try to be in front of me, I jump you, I keep running.” I would also like to add that “gender” would be used to refer to the way she identifies herself, whereas the term “sex” would be used to discuss about the biological aspects of her identification