South Africa's Golden Girl.

Poor Castor Semenya. I can only imagine how betrayed and embarrassed she felt when her story hit the news. To grow up a woman all your life and suddenly have a bunch of strangers accuse you of being a man. I can imagine the shock that swept over the rural parts of South Africa that she came from. Things the traditional African has never heard of before. A woman with too much testosterone may be considered a man? For us, when God gives you a child it is either a girl or a boy, nothing in between. I can imagine their confusion, 'what kind of  crazy people would call Castor a man', they must have thought. 'We should never have sent our daughter to those competitions'. That is Africa, where a child is raised by a village and children are not judged by their testosterone levels. South Africa proved that when they gave her a hero's welcome at the airport. They even have a fond nickname for her, "The golden girl."

Is it ethical for the media to put anybody's personal issue on the spotlight like that? Particularly an insecure teenager who was half the world away from home, running for her country? Castor was too embarrassed to even come out and get her gold medal. The media is too wrapped up the legalities of it to see that they may have destroyed a young girl's self esteem. Castor got home and immediately got a makeover. Of course she said whatever happened did not hurt her feelings and she loves herself just the way she is!Did anyone really expect her to say any different? The media overstepped their boundary. It was not only unethical what they did to Castor, it was uncalled for.