Anger Grows in South Africa Over Gender Test for Athlete

Caster Semenya’s right to privacy has been violated and lawyers must be briefed by the government to sue the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) on her behalf, says the National Assembly’s sports committee chairman, Butana Komphela

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He said today that the ANC’s parliamentary study group would insist on legal action when it meets Sports Minister Makhenkesi Stofile next week.

"We will ask the minister to take drastic measures to protect Caster Semenya. Someone is guilty of leaking her confidential medical information to Australian newspapers."

While Komphela stressed that the Sydney Morning Herald report claiming that sex tests had revealed that the runner was a hermaphrodite had not been officially confirmed by the IAAF, he said the damage done to the young woman was incalculable regardless of whether it was true or false.

"We need to bring comfort," he said. Her medical records appeared to have been leaked and her right to privacy violated in the must public way, he said.

It would not be a matter of contesting the medical findings, but how the issue had been handled by the international body. "The IAAF must be held responsible; they must find out who is leaking information," Komphela said.

He said he was gatvol and proclaimed that he was "prepared to lay down his life for that girl".

Source: Allafrica.com

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