if it walks like a duck: sports and the regulation of female bodies

[Shana A]

Saturday, August 22, 2009
if it walks like a duck: sports and the regulation of female bodies
Posted by Vanessa at 11:57 AM 

http://transgroupblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/if-it-walks-like-duck-sports-and.html

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and talks like a duck...it's a duck.

Substitute woman for duck, and one has illuminating insight as to what our culture finds appropriate femaleness, as well as the absence of wiggle room.

Just ask South African athlete Caster Semenya. Muscular body? Deep voice? Stellar athletic performance? Must be a man.

Top it off, Semenya now needs to take a "gender verification test."