SA Lesbian Athlete Finally Ties Knot With Longtime Girlfriend...Photos

 

 

South African middle-distance runner and world champion, Mokgadi Caster Semenya, has finally tied the knot with longtime lesbian girlfriend, Violet Roseboya in a traditional wedding ceremony in Ga-Dikgale, in the Capricorn District of Limpopo which she reportedly paid R25,000 dowry to her in-laws.

Caster Semenya, who burst into the limelight in 2009 when she won gold in the women's 800 metres at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin with a time of 1:55.45 in the final, has been a subject of controversy regarding her sexual orientation.

In September 2009, after a month of her dominant victory in the 800m at the world championships in Berlin, she was forced to undergo gender verification investigation tests after reports emerged that she was more of a male than female, after earleir tests showed she had high levels of testosterone.

Eventually, the International Association of Athletics Federations, the governing body for all international athletic competitions outside the Olympics, cleared her to race.

She happily Tweeted; "Feeling like a normal Athlete now wow!! Its being long!! Putting back my spikes on!!"

Raised as a girl, Semenya had no ovaries or uterus, according to the results of a test obtained by Australia's Daily Telegraph, which referred to her, primitively, as a hermaphrodite.

She had both external female genitalia and descended testes, the paper reported, leaving the impression that she was enjoying the competitive fruits of the extra testosterone. (It's not so simple: The biochemical processes that lead to inter-sexuality often affect the body's ability to make use of the testosterone inside it.)

After her controversial gender verification test results which was examined by a group of medical experts, Semenya has never commented on what treatments she has undergone, if any, but something has certainly changed. Since her breakout year in 2009, she has never run as fast, and in fact she has steadily gotten slower.

Semenya's greatest achievement to date was a silver medal in the 800m at the 2012 London Olympics.

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