Sapphic kiss of the week!

This week's Sapphic kiss goes to the incredible South African TEENAGE runner, and Gold medalist, Caster Semenya. 

In fact, after all the shit she's going through right now, The Sapphic Bride is going to give her TWO BIG kisses AND a GREAT BIG MAMA BEAR HUG.

The mocking media attention over these past few weeks (radio shock jocks laughing about her muscles, online polls for everyday idiots to "vote" on whether she is a man or a woman) really exposes more about those pointing their fingers than it does about her. It exposes a basic lack of understanding about the truth of human variation.  Look, she has some "male" hormones. All women do. And all men have "female" hormones too. She also does not have ovaries or a uterus, so she will never carry a child. But many female runners also do not menstruate. She has internal testes (which most likely was quite a surprise to her) AND, SHE DOES NOT HAVE A PENIS. For most people ** including Caster, her mother who raised her from birth, and her coaches ** the lack of a penis is enough evidence to conclude that she is female.  Why is it that ONLY AFTER she wins a medal against white Europeans that her sex is questioned and subjected to scientific scrutiny? And then, her test results are revealed not just to her and her mother and her coaches with time and space to absorb the medical news, but to the entire world !?! So much for medical privacy.

Now, this 18 year old girl with a Gold medal is facing a possible situation where she will not be able to ever compete again. Not because she did anything wrong. She didn't take steroids, she didn't commit a felony. She was born into a global sports world that can't wrap its head around her gorgeous athletic body. In fact, right now dozens of Sports doctors are scrambling to decide what to do about the fact that Caster has internal testes, which increases her testosterone level to three times the amount of a "average" female http://www.sportsscientists.com/2009/09/caster-semenya-leaks-begin.html.  They say they will announce to Caster and the entire world their VERDICT about her sports fate in November. (BTW, this is not the first sex-blurred athlete who has been kicked out of professional sports; she's just the first one who has hit the press).

Who's problem is this, really? Not hers. Figure it out people. Is the solution to make all athletes go through this test? (Hey, let's just force EVERYONE to take a hormonal test -- including the doctors and the radio joke-sters -- and if they fall on one side of a testosterone mark they are female, and on the other they are male, and then let's broadcast that to the world! What we'd see happen is a lot of people would suddenly, and to their surprise, have to change their pronouns).

Here's the thing I'm most concerned with now though: Caster is an incredible athlete. She has a gift, and she needs to run. In the meanwhile, Run Caster, Run, away from the gender idiots of the world and know that the Sapphos LOVE YOU no matter what!!!