Pseudo Hermaphrodites Categories
In our society today we only have two categories male and female then what about the in-betweens hermaphrodites and pseudo-hermaphrodites which categories do they fit in. In truth they don’t fit into any of these categories because they are consider out of norms. Hermaphrodites have both the male and female organs due to them having both the xx and xy chromosomes but in our society you can only be one. In most recent events the sex of a female South African athlete Caster Semenya has been in question because a gender test revealed that Caster is both man and women and the medal that she won might be stripped away due to these results. Caster Semenya was born in South Africa and has been running ever since she was young, even at a young age Caster has been always teased as a tomboy because she liked playing sports with boys and had a boyish look but that never stopped her from running and playing with them.
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Caster was then force to do a gender test to prove that she is female or she will be stripped of her medal. Caster’s gender test came out that she was a hermaphrodite but does that really matter. Caster was raise by both of her parents as a girl and her village accepted her as a girl so why should she be subjected to this humiliation by the world’s standards of how a girl should look like and be stripped of her medal that she earned through her hard
Caster was then force to do a gender test to prove that she is female or she will be stripped of her medal. Caster’s gender test came out that she was a hermaphrodite but does that really matter. Caster was raise by both of her parents as a girl and her village accepted her as a girl so why should she be subjected to this humiliation by the world’s standards of how a girl should look like and be stripped of her medal that she earned through her hard