Caster Semenya is sharing her frustration with trying to prove her womanhood to track officials in order to compete.In a new interview with HBO Real Sports, which aired this week, the 31-year-old South African track star recalled how, as a teenager, she offered to show her body to officials at World Athletics to prove she was a female.
World Athletics is the international governing body for track and field.According to Reuters, Semenya, came onto the scene in 2009 as an 18-year-old rookie.
She won the women’s 800m at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin by a stunning margin and then was subjected to sex verification testing.
Since then, she has faced years of scrutiny about her gender.“They thought I had a d–k probably,” she said in the interview. “I told them, ‘It’s fine.
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