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Caster Semenya is a woman, now what?

Started by Natasha, September 12, 2009, 09:02:48 AM

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Natasha

Caster Semenya is a woman, now what?

http://www.bilerico.com/2009/09/caster_semenya_is_a_woman_now_what.php
Alex Blaze
9/12/09

There's a lot to talk about when it comes to Caster, but I'll preface this by saying that finding out that there are some people who are unwilling to accept her gender (using that term intentionally) at face value, online commenters from all over the world calling her a "freak" and worse, and losing the one thing that she worked so much for and in which she was very talented, all at age 18, has to be hard on her.

The IAAF, the governing body behind international track and field events, hasn't released the official results of Caster Semenya's gender tests, and are requesting that she get some more done (according to the Telegraph yesterday). But a source leaked the results to the same paper the day before, and apparently she has a body that doesn't fit neatly into the binary.
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