Olympics: Policing Feminity- Jeff Hardin

After reading the article on Caster Semenya and about the controversy surrounding whether or not she was a male or female, I think that in a way the Olympics are doing the right thing by policing feminity but at the same time I feel as though they are kind of invading people's privacy as well as crossing the line when it comes to certain things. Back in the 1960's female athletes who wanted to participate in the Olympics had to be a part of "naked parades" and walk nude in front of people in order to make sure that they were fully female and in my opinion I feel that was wrong and crossing the line. I don't think that any female should have to be subject to doing anything like that just to prove that they are what they are in order to compete in the Olympics, and this was in the 1960's when major events were taking place such as the Civil Rights movement, Vietnam War, Assassinations of Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Malcom X and other events that were happening during this time period. I think that there are other ways IOC and IAAF can do to help ensure that female athletes are female and to ensure that everyone competing has the same equal advantage; Caster Semenya shouldn't have had to sit out for 11 months while testing was done to prove whether or not she was female. She made have had more muscle for a women and a little more testorone for a women but to me that's like saying all female athletes who have a little muscle aren't all the female; some people's bodies when they workout may be a little more toned than others due to maybe how hard and consistent they workout or due to the extreme level they do workout. Some women do have strong faces and their bodies with the muscle mass may come off as a suspicious but there are ways ethically and morally to find out if they are female or not. In the end Caster Semenya was able to compete in this years Olympics and it was also stated that she does undergo testing but she couldn't say the type of testing. I feel as though the Olympic Committees should do a better job in testing female athletes to not only make the female athletes feel more comfortable but to also keep the integrity of the Olympics and make sure that they always have that integrity and remember to principles of the Olympics on which it was created for.