“This is Not Natural:”

Reading the article “this is not natural Caster Semenya’s gender threats” really raised my eye to a lot of things. This article was very interesting to me; it actually made me really mad. Why do people judge? I just don’t get it. In the article it states that Semenya’s performance in all her races raised suspension about her sex. She’s a top athlete its not like she’s one of these high school athletes trying to make it, to the state finals, she’s arguably the best female runner in the world. What do you expect from arguably the fastest women in sports? I don’t understand why people would make these assumptions just because she’s much better than the competition. Why is she there competing to be the best if she gets ridiculed for doing her best?  In the article it also talks about how Semenya also looks like a male but to me what do looks have anything to do with being a male or female? Yes people in today’s world label each and everyone as male or female by simply the way they look but if you can’t then you have to simply look at the birth certificate or do test.  What I don’t understand is why people in todays world even make these labels about people. The article states that she wears pants and dresses like a man and as a child played with boys. It states she wasn’t into being a girly girl. Everyone is different and just because she doesn’t want to be the normal kind of “women” that society is use to seeing she gets penalized. I don’t believe that you can be in between a male or a female either. If you are born with both parts then you decide at that time to be male or female. She obviously doesn’t have a penis so that would make her a female in my eyes. Gender is an all or nothing thing to me.