The Caster Semenya case: sports and sexuality

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The Caster Semenya case: sports and sexuality
Green Left Online
By Farida Iqbal
20 September 2009


http://www.greenleft.org.au/2009/811/41716


Eighteen-year-old South African athlete Caster Semenya has done nothing wrong. Yet she has been accused of deceiving the world about her gender. There is nothing wrong with Semenya's body. Yet her body has been paraded in front of the world by the mass media as if she were a sideshow freak.